> At this age and time arguing most users don't know how to do this or were somehow duped is appalling.

Why? Most users really don't understand the consequences of the default settings, let alone which checkbox has which effect.

Just the other day I was browsing CNN and to great surprise a section on the site named a HN user as recommending that I should go and check out some link. Turned out it was powered by facebook and I had made the mistake of not logging out.

That's something that won't be happening again, but I'm not sure I could have predicted that sort of thing would happen.

And I'm definitely not comfortable with it.

For me, facebook has changed from a place where I share some stuff about me with my friends to a shingle for people to get in contact with me through other means.

I will not delete my account because that is a useful function, but my facebook days as an active user are mostly over (not that anybody cares or should care).