[houseabsolute]

It's fairly easy to deactivate or delete your account. Account > Account Settings > Deactivate Account. To preempt any objection that you want to be able to use Facebook, you just _also_ don't want them to analyze your status updates: that's nice, but they are not willing to offer you service on those terms. I guess it's fine to complain about it in hopes that something will change, but the winds are not blowing in that direction, Mr. Quixote.

[bootload]

"... It's fairly easy to deactivate or delete your account. Account > Account Settings > Deactivate Account. ..."

Is all the data deleted? cf: Eben Moglen ‘Freedom in the Cloud’~ http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338

[houseabsolute]

I think they actually make an attempt to do so when you delete (not deactivate) your account. However, this goes beyond the promises they make to you in their Terms of Service and beyond, in my opinion, any moral duty they have to their users.

[bootload]

"... I think they actually make an attempt to do so when you delete (not deactivate) your account. ..."

Facebook has repeatedly removed services [0] that allowed you to remove all traces of your account via the API ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+suicide

[0] Cnet, Rafe Needleman, "Facebook cuts off Suicide Machine access" http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10424683-250.html

[Zilioum]

I'm not against analytics or facebook in general. It's just that this company and this article in particular gives me the impression, that they dont give two shits about privacy and just do it because the last few times they tried to cross the line they got caught. I'm not expecting them to be nice, no company is, but they should at least try to show some respect for our privacy - and checking whether I'm happy or not is not doing that.