Facebook is terrifying
I&#x27;ve been using Facebook since college (circa 2005). Never &quot;hidden&quot; my profile from anyone or the public. Never deactivated anything or deleted a post. Recruiters and acquaintances look up my profile all the time. Still, I have never had the data I&#x27;ve given them come back to haunt me. I still trust Facebook leadership very much in this regard. Maybe it&#x27;s because I trust myself and how I utilize the technology. Or maybe it&#x27;s because I am cut from the same cloth as them when it comes to technology and I understand it at a very instinctive level. In light of the recent election, at this point I wouldn&#x27;t trust any other entity with that kind of data (like Amazon, who seems to use my data to raise prices on me, frequently). In fact, I would wish Facebook to contract with and take over identity management systems (ie. social security, drivers license) away from local and federal government - not to dictate policy but just to dictate infrastructure. I really don&#x27;t care about privatization or policy in a general sense, just progress in this regard.<p>10 years later I still don&#x27;t get the point of these articles besides fear mongering and at most to provide a technological challenge to engineers and developers on &quot;the other side&quot;. I understand ad-blocker companies are fighting a messy war right now with both content and ad providers. I guess that is another way, albeit much slower, way to achieve progress. Hacking goes both ways.