Facebook is becoming a bit of a battleground where avoidable exploits are dealt with after the fact. And this is a real crying shame, as Facebook has a lot going for it. The most recent incident involving a lack of Facebook security was an apparent chat exploit. In response, Facebook disabled chat for a time so that it could address the security breach.

Speaking for myself, I think this is one of this issues that should have never happened. Worse is that people still put their trust in social networking sites to a degree, and that they are willing to post all sort of personal information about themselves — often without regard of the consequences.

Things have apparently been a big enough deal that lawmakers here in the States are looking into stepping in. So it’s clear now that it is in the best interest of Facebook and others to encourage people to be a little less forthcoming with their personal info and for these services to nix the need to be sneaky with their privacy policies.

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