Facebook has horrible privacy policies. Mark Zuckerberg has made it very clear how he feels on user privacy and would just as soon sell all of our information to third parties than fix these problems.
OK HEAR ME OUT! This site is not intended for children under the age of 13. with that noted, you cannot say you do not want your 7 year old on this site, that is useless, as it is illegal to sign up unless you are 13 or over.
Also, external applications are your choice on weather you use it or not. you are not forced to use applications, I do not use applications myself, and find the ones that allow computers to post on your, and other peoples walls most unlikeable, for most(/all) of the posts are spam (again, you choose if you use the application). However, you can remove the posts on your wall, and you can remove wall posts that were made from your profile, which includes the ones from applications.
With that said, this is a good and safe (as you let it be) site.
ALSO IN RESPONSE TO PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN THAT YOUR PRIVACY IS NO LONGER EXISTENT; you put on Facebook what you put on Facebook, if its private then DO NOT POST IT I REPEAT, DO NOT POST YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION, and no worries about your private info being released. simple. (why don't people on this site understand that....?
@Memorians; they do not sell your information, they pull info to make the experience better, like how farmville uses friends profile pictures and names so you can be neighbors w/ them. and the pic is for good measure.(hit the period button hard to emphasize point.)
Some of the default privacy settings are not tight enough. New users can be caught revealing too much.
Some of the apps are very intrusive and there are lots of scams.
just don't use any of the gay applications or click on the small amount of advertisements they have and you will be fine. Keep your info private and don't accept requests from anyone you don't know and you won't get raped. Lastly if your afraid of viewing adult content don't look at any ones photos but your own and trustworthy friends. Some dumbasses give this site bad ratings because they do stupid things on it. You can control what gets sent to your email in the settings.
Social network platform, so famous that we forgot why using it... Useful if you lost people in your worldwide cities movements. If you don't feel concerned then it might be useless for you :D
They are selling your details to other companies. Now it#s planed to get "trusted pages" on which your details are sent automatically when you visit them.
Adult content can be found here... and there will be some users that distribute porn. relationship, (even if you don't know them) and sometimes harassment. can be fun and good sometimes but risky to your privacy. the moderator or owner of this site should really do something about that.