I have to say that the so-called "privacy" situation over at Facebook has me utterly enraged right now.

I have noted in the past – and even warned other people – that Facebook takes a really backwards approach to it all. Basically, they assume that you want to share, and the onus is on you to tell them when you don't. Fair enough, I suppose. When I signed up, I went through and set everything so that "only my friends" could see things. Much as I love you, fellow network members, I don't want to share my life with you.

In the time since I first did that, Facebook has added a lot of features. Many of these come with their own set of privacy options. And (I suppose I shouldn't be surprised), Facebook assumed with each of them that I would want to share with the world (they were wrong). So every few months, I would check my privacy settings, be surprised by a few things, and fix them.

But today took the cake. Today I received a comment on a posted item from a person who is not in my friends list, and it tipped me off that something must be funky over in privacy setting land again.

To my horror and irritation, Facebook has re-vamped that whole page... and re-set all my privacy options back to so that I'm sharing my Facebook life with "All my networks and all my friends".

What.

The.

Fuck.

I fixed them all *again*... but I'm actually pissed off enough to consider bailing altogether. This, combined with the realization that choosing to live much of my digital life within this "walled garden" means that I am forgoing the opportunity to ever access that content for reference later (shared links, etc) has left me feeling like Facebook kinda sucks. And by kinda, I mean... maybe a lot.