The new Facebook API exposes the events you attend to anyone on the Internet

I think this is just a symptom of a greater issue. Many of us assume that when we post something on the internet (facebook) it should be private. The reality is that you are handing your information over to another entity, and you are doing so willingly. That entity has vast resources and the ability to change the terms of service and rules at will.<p>If you just have the mindset that anything you share on facebook will be posted on a billboard in Times Square, you can know for sure that you are getting the privacy you want.

<i>But there's a big difference between publishing an event page with a list of people attending, and publishing a list of events that you attended.</i><p>Not really...<p>In other news, that tool he made (<a href="http://zesty.ca/facebook/" rel="nofollow">http://zesty.ca/facebook/</a>) is pretty neat.

Thank you. This allowed me to identify and remove an event that, while nice and quite innocent, was described in... "new age-y" language that might well put some contacts off.<p>I hesitated to rely on "security through obscurity" when using FB events as well as the old "fan pages", but social pressure caused me to give in on a few occasions.<p>Guess if and as I remain on FB, I'll avoid anything that has a public aspect to it.

isn't the point of "attending" an event on Facebook to let others know anyway?

oh, come on... why be shy? ;-))