Regardless, photos started off being visible to everyone at your school, which basically makes them accessible by anyone. There are no previous guarantees of privacy that have somehow changed. It's also very easy to set your privacy to your desired level.
but that doesn't mean i want to share it with all my family members, potential future colleagues, and employers. Facebook claims that i can control who i share it with, but in practice their constant changes to defaults, confusing user experience, and bugs mean that i can't.
Facebook has lied to me -- and their other 500,000,000 users. stop blaming me and letting them off the hook.
There's some things that I think they're right about, in particular the focus on short messages for a generation that's grown up with texting as a primary form of communication. There's other areas where they're clearly wrong, most obviously privacy. The next generation of kids doesn't want their parents and potential future employers to be able to see everything they're doing any more than the we did. And all the surveys show that Facebook deeply misunderstands next-generation attitudes towards privacy more generally....