all i’m saying is that Facebook should not be giving out information to third parties without giving us a clear disclosure. i have nothing to hide from anyone, so my social media profiles are all available for the world to see. nothing that i will consider a potential “haunt”.

like u said… some of the things we do with friends should remain offline – i agree with that. however some people don’t have that kind of intelligence to differentiate what should remain offline, and what should be posted on facebook.

cheers.

At any rate, if you don’t want to allow “situations where something might come back and bite me in the arse at another point in my life”, then the best way would be to not have 1)friends 2)a social media profile. Let’s face it, the things we do with friends, some stuff should remain offline. And even that doesn’t mean it definitely won’t come back to haunt us.

Love Mark’s article though. We all need to lighten up.

@Zhen Kai: Hello, thanks for your message. I understand where you are coming from, and I mentioned that there is no privacy – I expect that. But what I do NOT appreciate is for Facebook to pass on all of our information to vendors, who should by right have no such unrestricted and complete access.
I don’t think it’s a matter of being uptight or not, but rather, of not allowing situations where something might come back and bite me in the arse at another point in my life. It’s just like how some actresses start their careers by filming soft porn films, and later when they become big movie stars, their history in blue films come back to haunt them in the tabloids, etc. I’m sure you can understand that comparison well.

And another: you have to restrict yourself on the WWW and be uptight, reason being there are VIPs on your friend list? LOL.