I see the Facebook Privacy Monster is rearing its ugly head again with another subtle unannounced change. People need to understand that Facebook does not care about our privacy. All they care about is selling our data to advertisers. And they notoriously employ no testers, so whatever privacy options they do try to implement are always going to be riddled with holes.
The problem with Facebook is the way it aggregates all your postings and comments across posts, pages and groups, and you have no control over any comments left outside your own page. If you post to public groups or leave comments against public posts, Facebook will show them to all and sundry. If you’re concerned about privacy at all, you should not be posting things you wouldn’t want you mum, your boss or your ex to see anywhere on Facebook. Keep that sort of stuff for closed mailing lists, private forums, or places that allow anonymous pseudonyms.
I wonder if we should all go back to forums and blogs, where your postings on different sites weren’t connected and aggregated together in the same way, and none of them ever forced you to use your real names anyway.
