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People are up in arms these days with the ever changing Facebook privacy policy. What I really don’t get is people assuming that putting anything on the internet, no matter what site, is going to be fully private. The bottom line is if you want something to be private, don’t put it anywhere on the internet.

If you’re worried about your music tastes, the books you’ve read, the pictures you’ve taken, the schools you went to being shared with everyone else on the internet – then don’t use those Facebook fields. Share that stuff with people in the privacy of your own home.

I’m not concerend myself. I’ve been posting pictures and blogging long before I had a facebook account. I’ve tried my best to keep info I don’t want made public off the internet. Really, if someone is that interested in me, I suppose I should be flattered.

The biggest change I did on Facebook was to remove my high school and graduation year. But that really didn’t have a lot to do with privacy. I didn’t want people I barely remember or really didn’t like from high school to try to friend me. You were mean to me then, why should we be friends now?

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