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