Is facebook.com Safe?

Why does EVERYTHING have to be 'suitable for children'? Some of us are grown-ups and would like to be allowed to BE grown up. If one more person says to me "Oh, and the children can join in too . . . " I'm going to scream. Do kid things with your kid occasionally - don't just make them stand in the pub or restaurant watching you get pissed, or give them their own Facebook page.

Faceooks has major privacy issues. These are no secret and are readily available to read in their privacy policy. Be very concious of signing up for any extra applications. when you sign up or interact with almost any application, there is a popup that informs you that you will be sharing and making available any and all information within your profile including email, home town, telephone number, your freinds list and all information in their profiles. this information is than shared amoun advertisers to target ads ased on your interests, location and any other demographics made available in your profile. Also, these apps place a tracking cookie on your computer that tracks all websites that you visit and develops a "profile" of you. this information is SOLD for profit. this is how FaceBook remains free to end users. One should exersise extreme caution in your online activities, they can come back to haunt you. for instance, when i was a private contractor for Cisco, ANY perpestive person that I was going to be involved with in ANY way, even basic business emails, I always went to google, Bing and Yahoo and did a search on their name to see what came up. Everyone should do this from time time to see what information is out their about you free for the taking.

Personal informations issue - facebook is very known for his lack of sense for that! Children safe issue - not safe for kids - why? - becouse its easy way for them to trust to some criminal - and they are usually not protecting their personal informatons...