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The Silly Goose had a friend over recently, and a friend of theirs didn’t have a Facebook page, so they set one up for him.
I do not have a Facebook page.
I do not have a MySpace page.
Nor will I ever.
If you see any page on FaceBook or MySpace purporting to be me,
IT IS NOT ME.
That is all.
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First, there was the recent revelation that you can't actually delete any information from Facebook, and that Facebook reserves the right to keep any information you post on the site forever, and use it for pretty much whatever purpose they feel like. (I believe they subsequently backed off on some of that. But only some.)
More recently, go look at this C|Net article (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10270002-36.html). To briefly summarize it, FBhive discovered a security hole, weeks ago, that let anyone who knew about it break into any Facebook profile and steal any information posted there, even if the information was marked as private and not to be shown to other Facebook users. FBhive informed Facebook about the vulnerability ... and Facebook did nothing. Apparently because they didn't care. Until 8am this morning, that is, when the C|Net article posted and the vulnerability — and their inaction — became public knowledge. THEN they fixed it, or claimed to have fixed it, within three hours. A vulnerability that allowed theft of private information from their users wasn't important enough to take a couple of hours to fix ... but the risk of being publicly embarrassed over it, well, that gave them motivation to fix it. Because god forbid they should be publicly shamed over anything.
But mere exposure of confidential user information? Fuck that. Who cares?