i want to be invisible and i want to be anonymous. i don't want Mark Zuckerberg knowing my personal life and then selling it to advertisers. yes Google does that, but Google doesn't explicitly have photos, contact information, age, gender, etc. On the internet, if you use an email with Facebook and you use the same email with something else you can be directly identified and tracked down within a matter of hours. I don't pursue illegal activities but i don't want big brother watching me and looking in on my private life just to make sure. Once you understand the technical side of the internet, you then truly realize how naked your life really is when you use social networks. it is also extremely easy to hijack a Facebook account, so easy that even i could do it with enough setup. Facebook is just a huge hole in internet security where people post information about their life and other people's lives. Facebook yields no productivity while at the same time exposing your life to people you don't really know or trust. yes there are JUST BARELY security features for that, but i don't trust in Zuckerberg's ability to keep the site secure when he sell your information to begin with. I keep on getting links to fake profiles pointing to fake twitters (LOL twitter sucks) that then direct me to a site that tries to install mebroot on me. the fact that anyone can sign up so easily is a double edged sword, let new people in as well as repeat offenders that know how to trick the retarded bots that guard registration. All you need is mailinator a dynamic ip address and a person to enter captias and after 1 day you have 1000 fake accounts to spam with. ITS A TOTAL JOKE!!!  the internet and anonymity are 1 in the same and social networks destroy any chance of privacy on the internet. I am sick of being surrounded by people that don't seem to understand that Facebook is the exact evil the internet is trying to negate. The internet is about sharing information freely without restriction. Facebook restricts content.  THE INTERNET IS ABOUT GETTING RID OF RESTRICTION OF INFORMATION, NOT RESTRICTING IT AND LETTING ONLY WHAT ONE GROUP AGREES BE SEEN!!!!  I AM SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE POSTING: "why did you post that" "lol" anything involving rejecting reality and substituting with one provided by a book of fables anything that doesn't apply to me about their daily life like, "oh today i walked to dog, derply derp" retarded political links involving the support of Sara Palin or any other extremist views that only exist due to a blind Allegiance to religion If you want to have a good online experience: 1) learn to use a computer. 2) don't go online with a computer running windows 3) don't use a mac because you will just waste $1000 on inflexible hardware and fuel steve jobs' ego and get made fun of for being in a cult 4) learn to differentiate between legit and not-legit 5) don't use social networks 6) don't EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER goto 4chan.org 7) use Linux goddammit!! To long didn't read: Facebook is unsafe and serves no purpose other than linking me to people so the government doesn't have to if they ever decide i have "committed resinous acts" or "got involved in terrorism".