I don't get why people worry about privacy on FaceBook... I mean, it's very nature is public, why care? I mean, I'm certainly not going to post my cell number there, and I don't even use my legal last name, but I see no danger in hundreds of strangers knowing what I think about something. Maybe it's just because I lead an unexceptional life.
Also, I don't have nosy parents or people who I hide things from. I friended my father for a while, but unfriended him when I got pissed off at him for something he did and got sick of seeing his ugly mug in my sidebar. I don't think my mother is on FB, and if she was I would deny any requests; but I don't
like them... most people I like. If my Grandmother got on FB, I might feel somewhat inclined to guard my speech, but that's not going to happen, she still thinks computers are Bad Magic.
One of the things I like about adding complete strangers is that I get interesting views into lives that are very different from my own. I mean, when I started on FB, all of my friends were people I knew from drag and AA and in real life, and it was great to be able to keep up with people's doings without having to go out and see them in person (a valuable feature since I've become a complete hermit). But these were like-minded people I already knew about, and held no surprises.
Now, though, at least half of my friends are people I friended through games and apps, friends of friends' friends, friends of my cousins and my old high-school classmates I've not only never met but would never, under pre-FB circtumstances, have ever known anything about. I get to see into the lives of people completely unlike myself, to hear music I wouldn't otherwise hear, to think about viewpoints that I never would have arrived at by myself.
I like it!
http://www.facebook.com/robertmarlene
