The article is wrong also on it being FRIENDS or Public as your only choice. you can share info by designating groups individuals public and private.
They asked for my Wife's Facebook password at her work. She told them no. They admitted they had no legal standing to make her give it to them. (its just the FEDGOV trying to intimidate the masses) They also admitted they could not punish her for not giving it to them. And she must have a yearly FBI background check to work there. And in her works case its redundant anyhow being that with The FBI background check they can legally peruse our ISP info transmission using the built in CALEA compliant system if they need it.
Bottomline if you think you can do anything illegal or stupid and you talk about it Be it on Facebook or at the local pub and not suffer consequences (people do tend to talk you know) then you are an idiot.
Common sense takes care of any privacy concerns on Facebook. Its can be summed up simply and it works equally well On or off of Facebook. "Don't share what you are ashamed of."
Now, I posted an article from an actual FB user.
Seems like the points I was making, he made as well.
Now, as I said, for every positive in FB, there is also a negative.
And the essential use of FB is simply social, for people to talk about their own lives.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Your denials to the contrary not withstanding.
That doesn't make FB important, only popular.