I’ve been wary of Facebook’s privacy settings for a long time. I set mine to the most restrictive possible back when they announced Beacon. Since then they’ve released new features on a regular basis, each of which seems to share information about me without my knowledge or permission. You know what, Facebook? Fuck that.

I even disabled the most recent feature–“instant personalization”, which allowed third party websites to read my information on page load. Yet my friends can still, according to FB, share my info with any third party. Name, picture, gender, city, friend list, pages, and more. I have to explicitly block each and every app that wants my data. I don’t even know how many there are! That “recommend” button? Gives the app access to your data and permission to publish to your feed indefinitely.