I spent an entire day in a seminar devoted to stalking people on the Internet. We had a whole section on Facebook. If you have your privacy settings totally locked down but one of your friends “likes” or comments on a post you make, and their settings are not totally locked down, then it can be found with a simple search. I sort of have assumed this so don’t post private things on my page. I mainly use it to check up on my kids and my niece and nephews whom I dearly love. So far none of them have unfriended me but I’m pretty sure that they don’t allow all of my postings on their wall. I’m not sure how to do that but I’ve been assured by one of my sons that its possible.
Hmmm. two ways to read that...
1... A seminar devoted an entire day to the stalking issue, and you attended.
2... You spent the entire day stalking people, while at a seminar.
Plus, if some acquaintance has a baby, meets the Dalai Lama, etc. it's fun to know.
On the other hand, people seem to be a little too disclosing. This being an election year yields way too many examples of folks saying more than necessary about their political views. I don't need to know that the lunch lady at school is a screaming leftist pro-choice maniac.
It's curious how I've lost respect for people as a result of their FB postings, but I can't point to an example of where it has worked in the other direction.
I'd rather just hide behind the thin veil of anonymity on FR.