Mike Nicholson

Facebook's new privacy policy is very creepy. It's too creepy in fact. For instance, they will retain information on my friends that I invite but whom never sign up for the purposes of advertising...

This is a bit too far so I've deactivated my Facebook account. The creepy part about their deactivation process is that they don't purge my account! All of my data is still retained forever!

I know all big companies have to be evil to survive, but this is just too big of a jump all at once. If you have a Facebook account please deactivate it. Just go to your account settings, select deactivate, and be sure to mention that their new advertising policy is what has motivated you to act.

Since they retain all of our information, if Facebook ever reverses their decision we can all reactivate our accounts and it will be like nothing ever happened :)