I came out on Facebook, after telling my 20 most important friends in person. I didn&#x27;t set my preference to &quot;gay&quot;, I just wrote it in a picture, in the hope that Facebook itself would have a harder time registering this information. Therefore I don&#x27;t think I qualify for their stats. From my experience the guesstimate of 10% people being gay is close to the truth, so Facebook is missing 30m gays in the US...<p>Concerning privacy, on the other hand, Google Reader, The Old Reader and Tumblr have extremely precise details about my tastes. I wonder what my profile at the NSA looks like: My facebok is registered under a false name against an email which is now defunct and I browse it in a separate Chrome profile, but they could easily recoup me if they notice I use the same camera to post on facebook and other websites.<p>Or Facebook could notice I browse gay friends with more interest ;)