For some reason you're paranoid and a freak if you object to facebook presence. I'm not going to create a profile there, and if I do, it's going to be a 'slim' profile without much content.
Not many people realize just how much you accept when you enroll yourself in Facebook, but you surrender all privacy, nothing is 'for your eyes only'. People use them for pictures, even very private pictures, and think that if it's marked private, then it's only for you and the selected few. But as soon as you then accept any kind of 'competition' or 'game' you allow the provider of that FULL access to your profile, and thus everything private is gone.
For a pimpeled faced nerd with no "social network", that's heaven, you can all of the sudden download and use all sorts of info, just make the user accept your invitation to a game, mass harvest of info, if you get a virus up and running on facebook, as soon as it's accepted it's automatically forwarded to all the friends, and all info is collected from everybody. At least one very wealthy geek found that interesting, and could sell the idea to companies.
A lot of sites on the net warns about this, and even explain it quite thoroughly, but still, it just doesn't 'sink in'.
Looking at Legal Andrew's there's a very nice explanation of what is at risk, one of the baffling quotes from the acceptance you give when you sign up is item 4:
"By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing."
So you allow facebook to do everything with your data, plain and simple.
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