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Originally Posted by ratbastid
What I'm saying is, every time there's a breakthrough in communication media, the new technology gets blamed for the abuse that it's used for. Gutenberg was accused of slander because his press design was used by others for publications that defamed public figures. Not even the press he built and owned, but others built following his design! This is no different.
My point is, Facebook isn't violating anybody's privacy (except when they are--technical failures that expose private information have happened, but are beyond the scope of this conversation). It's the OP's wife who's exposing info he doesn't wish to be exposed. IMO the fact that she's doing it on the intertubes is complete beside the point.
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I mostly agree with you on this. She is the one who is using the technology to talk about our disagreements and cast me in a bad light. I just feel powerless to defend myself unless I create an account, which I don't want to do for aforementioned reasons. I mean sure, I could "pocket veto" everyone that tries to send me a friend request, but that's really the same as rejecting them. And I know many of you don't believe it, and I could just be paranoid, but I believe your pages are tracked and analyzed by advertising companies, government agencies and others. Basically I think if you're on there you have sacrificed some degree of your privacy and if you aren't you leave yourself open with no real way to monitor it or defend yourself.