Did they cave or just engage in the same pattern they've had? Push the envelope three steps, apologize for overstepping, back up a half step, then in a little while push forward another three steps?

I'm more concerned with their plans to put Facebook "LIKE" buttons on tons of other websites, most notably sites that sell things - in order to generate peer-pressure ads on people's facebook feeds with recommendations from their friends to buy certain goods or services.

Marketers have known for decades that people are prone to buy things they perceive their friends as liking. Companies are salivating over this opportunity to have friends sell stuff to their friends simply by exercising their learned facebook behavior.

I think I got all my privacy settings sorted out but I'm still mad that Facebook obliterated my profile information. Why does everything have to be a page? I tried to put some text back in and I was able to click Save and nothing whatsoever was saved.

I'm a human being, not a bunch of links.

Welcome to what Web 2.0 has been for most of the last decade.

That's already happening. I make sure I am logged out of FB when I do any internet browsing now.

Oh, they are utterly insincere in their caving, and since the article doesn't explicitly say that any new privacy settings will be set to private by default I definitely leave open the option that they have indeed not promised to make things less private by default, but only to make it a little easier to change the settings. Could be just an omission, but it seemed like they were pointedly mentioning "default" without ever committing to saying anything changed.

It did come across as a little more grovelly than I recall prior retractions.

CNET has an excellent walk through of exactly what changed. More than I realized, some good some bad.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/navigate-face...-50088174.html