It&#x27;s totally a POV issue IMO, that&#x27;s why I phrased it that way :).<p>For me, half of the Facebook&#x27;s utility was the ability to check people out without having to commit to a relation with them first. A publishing platform, a little bit like personal pages of old, but much more streamlined and accessible to the mainstream. But it turned out there&#x27;s enough bad actors around (stalkers, marketers) that people voted against this, and so Facebook is now a very locked down place. <i>I</i> think most of those fears people have are overblown, but well, that&#x27;s only my opinion and it seems that most people disagree.