Facebook privacy - are you worried?

Ferry

Great discussion topic....so now! I have changed some settings. Yes I'm concerned about my privacy and so are many of my friends. To be quite truthful, I have always thought Facebook to be quite dangerous. Things people write are so open to interpretation and it doesn't take much for someone to get the wrong idea or even get emotionally hurt. That's not what we want in our society. Because we are all individuals, we all take things onboard differently and what may hurt or upset one person will have no effect on another. It's so easy to sit behind a computer and print whatever one pleases without regard to others. It's a cowardly act but the world is made up of so many different people and that can't be policed. I worry about mums and dads putting up photos and information about their children too. It is frightening to think that some person with a twisted mind can put together information about a person, especially a child. I know there are settings such as friends, public etc. but I'm convinced that's not a guaranteed protection. I do believe that there are people out there who are housebound or confined to bed due to illness or for some other reason, and for those people Facebook is a link to the outside world. Here I would like to say it drives me crazy when people have nothing better to do than put up photos of the coffee they had for breakfast, or the weeds in their garden, or the chocolate they ate etc. I actually feel sorry for those people because their lives are so empty. In conclusion, yes I'm worried about privacy on Facebook. I'm very careful what I put up and if in future our privacy can't be more protected, I may consider disconnecting.