<story><title>Ask HN: Are you with me? Leaving Facebook. </title><text>I&apos;ll be deactivating my Facebook account (tainting what I need to) and removing as much information there as possible within the week.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not a hardcore privacy advocate, but I joined Facebook with the understanding that some of what data placed there would stay private. That is what we agreed to.&lt;p&gt;Facebook has repeatedly violated that trust.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmelbye</author><text>No, I&apos;m really happy with the service that they provide. If there&apos;s something that&apos;s actually private, I&apos;m not going to be posting it on the Internet in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>araneae</author><text>I agree with you generally, but the most damning information about me that&apos;s on Facebook was posted by other people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Are you with me? Leaving Facebook. </title><text>I&apos;ll be deactivating my Facebook account (tainting what I need to) and removing as much information there as possible within the week.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not a hardcore privacy advocate, but I joined Facebook with the understanding that some of what data placed there would stay private. That is what we agreed to.&lt;p&gt;Facebook has repeatedly violated that trust.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmelbye</author><text>No, I&apos;m really happy with the service that they provide. If there&apos;s something that&apos;s actually private, I&apos;m not going to be posting it on the Internet in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesjyu</author><text>Hear hear to that! I&apos;m always puzzled by all these privacy nuts that go on and on about privacy problems with social media sites like Facebook. If something is absolutely private and you do not want to share it outside of one or two people, DO NOT put it on a social media site! Period.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I would go as far as to say never put any critically sensitive information on the web.</text></comment>