Facebook has been hacked so many times, it is ridiculous, but no one seems to care about anything anyone may have gotten. Any threat of information being exposed is really silly, as it has been done so many times to so many it is not news anymore.
Well, except for the women who had their "private" photos posted to a public site. Probably a few others, but in general Facebook folks seem to not really care who gets their information.
And yet, when I have said that as a passing comment, Facebook folks get all irritated and defensive. It is a rather bizarre mindset. They seem to think their information is secure, when in fact, it really isn't and has never been secure. Then again, I am pretty certain most Facebook users do not really care about that.
I know and I agree. I only signed up using a trash email address I use for nothing else, with bogus personal information for everything other than my first name. Facebook tries to prevent this, but not very hard, it was easy to get around. My actual friends know who I am on Facebook. It doesn't protect me if a government agency is looking at my FB posts and seeing where I'm tagged combined with my IP addresses, but it should give some protection against identity theft by someone who doesn't know me.
I'm not signing up for Google+ because they are the same company that sees where I browse every time I do a Google search or hit a web site with Google ad banners (I keep those disabled in Firefox, but sometimes the site doesn't work unless I enable them). Its just too much info in the hands of one company. I might relent after a couple of years if Google+ proves that it is not being constantly hacked like Facebook was in its early years, but only if I can use bogus info... they have no reason to know my actual name or birthday.
