Facebook privacy?

I have been hearing a lot about Facebook's new privacy settings, or lack of privacy settings. It seems that if you type it into Facebook, it's public, and it's forever. They make it terribly complicated to control your settings, and even if you unlike something or someone, they still have access to your personal data. Check out this rant from Boing Boing-- http://bit.ly/bqMQpM

This is all well and good, as I don't post things that I assume are private, but it occurred to me that by being on Facebook, I am condoning their activities. Everyone who knows me, wants to know me, or who I want to know, already knows how to get in touch with me. I'll leave it to them to do that when they need to. I think that the only meaningful and self-interested decision I can make is to delete my Facebook account. Here's how to do that--

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

I don't want anyone to think that because I have an account, that makes it ok. I don't mind if others keep their accounts, that's up to them, but at least know what you are getting into.

There are alternatives. One is called Diaspora. It's only in the planning stages now, but look for it to emerge later this year. Here are a couple of stories about it--
http://nyti.ms/bf9UgG http://nyti.ms/8YwF3P

It's not ok for one corporation to control so much of the Internet, and although Facebook has 400,000,000 users and they probably won't miss me, it's a start. Big things have small beginnings.