When you register with sites like Facebook and Google Talk, do you expect any privacy? Check the recent news items from WSJ
"The program, which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled last month, allows Facebook to track its users' activities, such as purchases, on third-party Web sites that partner with the social-networking site and broadcast them to the users' friends."
More here,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119687856122414681.html
"Last month, Google introduced a new feature that essentially guesses who your friends are—based on chatting habits in its Google Talk service, among other things—and automatically shows those people your shared items."
More here,
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/01/02/the-hazards-of-using-google-reader/
These are some of the reasons why I don't put my profile out at these sites
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