While I don't like the direction Facebook has been going in regarding privacy, I am one of the folks of the position that it is not wise to put stuff on the Internet you don't want being made public. It's not like it takes even super-uber-hacker levels of skill to get somebody else's "private" data on the web. All it takes is for somebody who is granted access to your "private" data to look at your web page or email, and then copy-and-paste, or take a screenshot, take a photograph, screenshare, or have someone else be looking over their shoulder at the time. And once that initial copy/fork is made, the copied data can live forever and is infinitely sharable/viral.
When I first learned of MySpace and Facebook, and what people were doing on them and uploading to them I thought, "This will not end well." Turns out, I was right.
While I don't like the direction Facebook has been going in regarding privacy, I am one of the folks of the position that it is not wise to put stuff on the Internet you don't want being made public.
The whole problem is that Facebook takes your Internet visibility out of your hands, and puts it in the hands of your "friends." Meaning, people who don't realize that you might not want photos of underage drinking or that summer camp in Pakistan posted in public and tagged with your name.
When I first learned of MySpace and Facebook, and what people were doing on them and uploading to them I thought, "This will not end well." Turns out, I was right.