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I’m not an analyst but I guess it would be quite reasonable for HP to akquire Facebook. They could use it to solve their problems with leakers. (About the leaker story see e.g. the Scobleizer, he’s constantly blogging about it….

I know a handful of people, myself included that deactivated their accounts. It’s been different, a life without facebook, but I intended to join back once the newsfeed was removed or privacy options were enabled. However, in the mean time i have been researching other sites and have found some others that have interested me.

..Good call, Mike (rolling eyes)

Facebook endorses privacy and gives the users the ability to opt out of the attention stream (see Techcrunch)….

Two recent technology events have me wondering about privacy: how much users, workers, and citizens alike are willing to accept in this age of digital everything sprayed across the internet, and power of the network, both to invade our privacy and empo…

Ideally yes, everyone would have just their close friends on their “friends” list and wouldn’t care about what is broadcast to them. But “friends” on social networking sites have turned out to be much less specific than that. There’s the guy you met at the bar in the pub one night and chatted to for half an hour. There’s the girl on your course who you always say a few words to while waiting to go into a lecture. There’s the friends of friends you see and chat to at parties after a few drinks. For all of these people, you are more than likely to accept onto your friends list (you wouldn’t want to reject them, if only through politeness). But you don’t know these people well enough to want to broadcast your every move to them.

The vast majority of people have friends lists that look like this, and that’s why this feature was not well thought out (and indeed remains an issue that has only been partially resolved).

At least initially (the new controls fixes it), if someone friended you and you rejected them, it broadcast it.

If you removed something BECAUSE the new features broadcast it, it not only broadcast that you removed something, *it broadcast what you removed*. Why would you possibly want something you removed to be broadcast? That defeats the entire purpose of removing it in the first place.

If you declined an invitation, it broadcast that. It’s all well and good (to me at least) if it tells people I’m going TO a party, but I don’t want people to know I rejected the invitation. It’s all social….but rejecting an invitation looks bad.

Likewise, as someone mentioned before, have no control over what people post *about you*, yet it all gets broadcast to all your friends and all their friends. Inappropriate pictures, stupid wall posts, everything. Unnecessary.

This is all a moot point now, since facebook has fixed it. I seriously hope they learned a lesson though. Focus groups exist for a reason…use them!