So ... because Facebook didn't reveal our SSN or credit-card details, it's "ridiculous" that people decide not to use it?<p>The difference is that when sites/companies are <i>cracked</i>, and our personal information is <i>stolen</i>, people get upset because the site/company was incompetent.<p>When Facebook <i>knowingly</i> <i>sells</i> information that we consider to be private, revealed only to our friends and family, or (in the most recent cases) to the person we're messaging with ... that's not a mistake. It's not incompetence.<p>Quitting Facebook when you realize that the deal is actually that anything you post, even things you write but delete before sending, is considered product, and will be monetized in any way they think they can get away with, is a perfectly rational response.<p>You can argue that this realization is late in coming: in hindsight, that was clearly the deal all along, it has just taken us a while to recognize it. That's fair. But quitting is still a perfectly good way to stop compounding your earlier error.