If you’re still thinking about Facebook and privacy (and if you’re not you should be) these are some must read articles. Baym at Online Fandom has a recent post titled Why, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet. It addresses some criticism of the criticisms of Facebook in her book including Twitter’s public, where’s the rage against Twitter? If you think it’s so evil, just leave. Facebook needs to make money. If you don’t want it shared, don’t share it. I’ve stayed on Facebook for the same reasons as Nancy has and she explains them much more articulately than I ever could.  I agree with her that “Facebook has engaged in a bait and switch.” I want a Facebook that really believes that people have a right to select how their information will be shared, instead of a belief that they’re too dumb to figure it out if the settings are too confusing so it’s okay to dupe them. In danah boyd’s Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) she states What I find most fascinating in all of the discussions of transparency is the lack of transparency by Facebook itself. As for statements by Zuckerburg and others that people, especially  youth,

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