Facebook privacy : a word play

You may like to follow these steps:
Goto your facebook Account Settings (or you can click this link directly) –> Account Settings page 

Under “Settings” tab immediately above the “Deactivate Account” option there is an option called “Download Your Information”.

that will bring up the “Download Your Information” page where you can “Get a copy of the data you've put on facebook.” yup, everything that belongs to you as they suggest there. Your photos and videos, posts on your wall, all of your messages, your friend list and other content you have shared on your profile blah blah..

it looks like this:

I have requested to download my profile information, let’s see how it turns. many have suggested this feature doesn’t work. i am yet waiting.

i’ve highlighted the WARNING message in the snap above. it reads like this:

WARNING: This file contains sensitive information. Because this download contains your profile information, you should keep it secure and take precautions when storing, sending or uploading it to any other services.

Well said.

We should keep it secure and take precautions when storing, sending or uploading it to any other services. Yeah, but it is okay when facebook shares this information “mysteriously” with all those other services who pay few bucks to facebook for few page views.

What pushed me to write few line about the “Download Your Information” page was that warning message which for while suggested, indeed the guys at facebook know that “profile information, is sensitive information”

No more wonders why the heck facebook made privacy settings so tough to deal with. Any user with not much of facebook familiarity will sure compromise their “Sensitive Information”, The Facebook knows that. Those bunch of “Any users” are sufficient to keep facebook server busy for a while.

(you may wonder why i still talk about The Facebook, actually my whole circle live around it)

Update:
i received an email notification after few hours. Got the download link for my “profile information” ~ 15MB. When i unzipped and start browsing – hell yah that looked scary, all those activities – around 2 years of my Facebook stay. Wasted 2 hours again. What The F