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A while back, I was talking with a teenage girl about her privacy settings and noticed that she had made lots of content available to friends-of-friends. I asked her if she made her content available to her mother. She responded with, “of course not!” I had noticed that she had listed her aunt as a friend of hers and so I surfed with her to her aunt’s page and pointed out that her mother was a friend of her aunt, thus a friend-of-a-friend. She was horrified. It had never dawned on her that her mother might be included in that grouping.

They never imagine that “everyone” includes every third party sucking up data for goddess only knows what purpose.

When they think of everyone, they think of individual people who might have an interest in them, not 3rd party services who want to monetize or redistribute their data.