Oh! Oh!

When I began using the Internet several years ago, I made a pact with myself in which I assumed anything I posted could be read by anyone in the world with access to a computer. Of course, I always read the privacy promises, etc., but I didn't really believe any of them human nature being what it is, and all. I was right. Wired Magazine now informs us that Facebook has reneged on it's privacy promises and is selling our profiles to whomever.

Facebook decided to turn “your” profile page into your identity online — figuring, rightly, that there’s money and power in being the place where people define themselves. But to do that, the folks at Facebook had to make sure that the information you give it was public.

So in December, with the help of newly hired Beltway privacy experts, it reneged on its privacy promises and made much of your profile information public by default. That includes the city that you live in, your name, your photo, the names of your friends and the causes you’ve signed onto.

This spring Facebook took that even further. All the items you list as things you like must become public and linked to public profile pages. If you don’t want them linked and made public, then you don’t get them — though Facebook nicely hangs onto them in its database in order to let advertisers target you.

Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/#ixzz0nWsgdgPy

So, after I post this I'm going to close my Facebook account. There's nothing there I wouldn't let anyone read, but the idea that a company is so blatant about it's greed is aggravating.