I want to share a typical Facbook comment on CNN blog

The problem is not people who are whining about Facebook, and you can say "just don't sign up." The real key are people like myself and other early adopters. We got into this early on, when Facebook was still good, and had good privacy. But they've changed their privacy policy so many times, with no option to opt out, that who knows who has control of my data anymore? I came to CNN a week or two ago and my freaking face pops up on the screen with CNN asking if I want to merge accounts. Um... No? Maybe Facebook could have asked me about that before they sold me to Time Warner?

A lot of people still care about privacy, and are worried by this kind of stuff. With the latest privacy settings, you can lock down your own Facebook account and protect your data, but the default setting is that if you visit a webpage and your settings are not locked down, you share your data *and all of your friends data*. This means your personal information is only secure as the stupidest person you know. Does the stupidest person you are friends with on Facebook value your privacy as much as you do?

The only option left for me was to purge my account. Remove every picture, all likes and dislikes, every piece of biographical data. If Unfortunately Facebook still stores this data on their servers for an unknown amount of time, and they *will not delete it when requested*. You have to keep your account active for a while until a new series of backups overwrites your old data... or so you hope.

That's not what I signed up for. ... posted by Soylent CNN blog.