Nick, with all due respect, you are showing the idiocy of liberal stupidity and ignorance, with glaring clarity. The point is, in the REAL world, that if your job and your boss are worth anything, of course he cares about his employee’s conduct and discretion, which are signs of self-respect, which is reflective of whether one is complete imbecile, vs. a gentleman or woman of intelligence and strength. I hate to say it but you’re showing tremendous slack, to say the least. Wake up and learn it’s your ideals that will destroy our, or any, country or civilization. If you feel that you could run a business without regard for your employee’s discretionary boundaries or moral compass, and succeed, you have another thing coming. Same goes for society. Those who do not know their history are destined to repeat it.

For me–and I safely presume for others–logging onto Facebook is akin to walking into an empty room, devoid of people, but full of muted words emanating from the walls and corners. You're in your best suit or dress, with a marvelous presentation to share with your 5,000 friends, but not one of your 5,000 friends are there to share it with you. So the best alternative given to you is to project it onto your wall, and hope that one of those so-called 5,000 friends will bother to look at it. After checking to see if anyone has responded to your prior offerings and missives, you leave as dejected and when you entered; only to once again log on to Facebook, hoping that one of your legions of friends had paid a visit to you, which really confirms the old adage that a friend is someone who makes time to be with you. I ask myself that if this old adage is, indeed, true, why am I choosing this method of 'socializing' to find friends. Is it because I don't have to make the time to go outside my house to look for them, and facebook gives me the convenience of sitting in front of my PC, in my boxers, with 2 days growth of beard, in search of someone to connect with? If so, I am as guilty as the so-called 5,000 'friends', some of whose muted words are heard behind my wall. I say to myself that the Facebook experience is the most unfriendly means to find joy in life, particularly when you don't have to be physically present to engage in it; which, incidentally, is the fundamental way to connect with real, flesh and blood friends. So I concluded that Facebook is anti-joy, anti-human, anti-friend, whose only purpose is to itself, which it's founders aren't really certain of what it is, save for its dubious commercial potential; which will be a certain, finite joy for them, but not for me. Goodbye Facebook and my 5,000 so-called 'friends' who could care less whether I get up in the morning or not.

Moreover I find the made up 'what users want' list and he 'probably not' self-served answer to the question about what I want lacking in anything but opinion pulled out of thin air.

The idea that if something (having total control over what you post online) isn't technically 100% possible today, then people should change their behavior and suck it up is a surrender to the current limits of the technology. Why have medicine if people are going to die anyway right?

Sorry to pick on you here Nick, but this post is rife with apology for face book's bad behaviour and very short on anything but opinions that aree pretty easy to poke holes in. Does privacy matter? Hell yes, more than ever in the networked age, not less because it's hard to do or because it doesn't serve advertising.

Because until the world enters a stage where everyone can accept that others live a different way and be OK with that then sharing everything about your life poses professional, personal, and and even livelihood risks.

Just think of some of the monotheistic approaches for some religions – their goal is to change other people, and often that turns into violence.

The world is not yet ready to embrace that much diversity, and examples of it are in the news every day.

While some of my info may be there, it is only viewable by certain people. And I periodically check to make sure it stays that way.

Plus, I don't hit that "Connect with Facebook" button everywhere I go.