Recently, I have been focused on ramping up my business to help small businesses move into the cloud computing space.  However, I have taken a detour to make users aware of the Facebook privacy issues.  Users want their technology to work. They accept a small amount of inconvenience and are often slow to anger about the feature rich” (i.e. bugs) products they have to endure.   However, many people who have become aware of the Facebook opt-out policy have told me that the policy seems deceitful, especially since many of them really enjoy Facebook even if they are just lurking in the background.  I admit that I am disappointed Facebook has been slow to respond to the privacy issues.  I wonder if there will be dramatic improvement in the latest round of privacy setting.  I do not think the changes will be significant; “smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors, my friend” as one of my colleagues used to say.    Personally, I would love to see all the settings change to opt-in rather than remain opt-out.  All relationships, even on-line ones, allow for us to opt-in.  I wonder how all of this will affect Facebook as they approach their 500 millionth registered user.

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