Do you have a cellphone? Do you use smartphone apps? do you use google or other search engine? do you use an email service? Do you use an ISP? what software do you use? Do you monitor your outgoing connections? Do you wear hoodies in front of cameras when you enter commercial buildings?

All these things affect your privacy. You're arbitrarily deciding FB is not worth that "invasion" but trying to convince others that FB should objectively be excluded and is somehow radically different than all these other examples where you give up privacy is disingenuous.

Well, you're reading those who hating so much, you're not reading those who use it because those who use it don't go all around slashdot complaining.

If you pay attention, we've been over this. In some places, FB (or any online service where people you know use) is an extremely practical way to contact be in touch with people (and later take that online interaction to, let's call it, real life) .

Now, the problems of privacy and all that shit are big but, at this point, human culture has basically stated they crap on privacy and will upload YOUR photos without your consent wether you want it or not. If you're not registered to these services, you'll still be in them, but you just won't know it.

What one can do is take the time to deal with these needlessly complex and open by default settings and set things to your liking. And not use whatever you find wrong.

I don't use facebook apps, I don't upload phots of myself (Except the odd profile photo), most things to max, I try to separate groups and keep things separate, etc.

It's not necessary but it's convinient (same as email, cellphones, cellphone apps and so many other tech things that where our privacy is definitively not the first concern).

Oh, dumb native speaker uses grammar of non-native speaker to try and make a point. I'm sorry you don't feel smart enough to actually offer arguments.

My point is that your personal anecdote an insults are useless.

You haven't seen much then.

Sure. It protects you but if an officer of the law uses his authority you're helpless and he WILL obtain your data. You can refuse and he can arrest you.

The problem comes when, upon suing law enforcement or trying to rule the evidence inadmissible (I'm talking out of my ass here, I'm not sure what the exact procedures are) you get one of those arguments to assert the legality of the search.

Does it offer any protections against a possible "I did it for my safety" or "It was a matter of national security" or "I had reasonable expectations that it was vital to stop a crime"?

I'm downplaying the effectiveness. I'm not saying FB is not out to get every last bit of info out there. If you're very privacy conscious, there's quite a number of things you should be looking out before this one.

Btw, Thanks for the free insult, it's always good to see ACs being tough guys.

If you have any real issues, file a bug report or complain with details. Don't vaguely spread bullshit.

He said impersonate, not actually access. I'd imagine a decent email service would catch email spoofing though, and tricking 3 people without them getting in contact with the account holder doesn't seem likely either.

There's already 5000 ways for them to discover what friends are more relevant to you, though.

They can analyze your interactions, your views of someones profiles/walls, your clicks on their shares, your groupings or other customized settings...

I don't think this is the sort of feature that will have so much adoption as to matter in that sense.

mmm... I saw it more in terms of some sort of extra authentication and it doesn't seem to be obligatory so I don't know why people are complaining that much.

Yes. There is a real world outside of your room. People socialize. It might be hard to recognize it from the center of the universe you are in but it happens.

does Firefox do that? Do you know what Mozilla stands for? Research that and you'll have your answer.

What about the nostalgia factor? The original logo, etc.

I wouldn't tatoo myself ANYTHING but I don't see how that is bad...