[schwanksta]

Closer to 20 than I am to 30, have 700+ 'friends' chronicling most of the people I met in college (and then some), tons of wall chatter between friends and family over the years, almost 900 photos tagged of me (though I don't let anyone else see those) and a few hundred pictures I've posted myself. I use it almost daily to share interesting links / photos / news stories I read throughout the day, and to keep in touch with people since I've moved

I'm seriously considering account deletion because Facebook is making me uncomfortable. In the past, I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt -- like when they responded to user feedback and killed beacon. I thought "Gee, maybe they aren't Evil, just a little misguided."

Now, I think they're Evil. The only thing they learned from the Beacon disaster was that they can't roll out all of the privacy erosion at once; you have to do it slowly, so nobody realizes it, or a least their anger never really reaches critical mass. Taking a hint from the government perhaps.

So I'm "hip," as you kids say. But here I am, weighing the benefits of simple and wide-reaching communication against a provider that keeps proving it's willing to sell my information without much warning.