Deleting your Facebook Account

11,000? Facebook must be quaking in their boots.

The whole privacy thing was blown way out of proportion. First off, there isn't anything private on the Internet. Once posted, it's forever. One should never type or post anything on the internet that they wouldn't show to their mother or post on the bulletin board. Those that do are fools.

As far as financial transactions, it's a case of risk management. The secure socket layers (SSL) encryption provides a reasonable level of security for day-to-day financial work. In most cases, the work required to break the encryption exceeds the value of the transactions. That keeps most cyber criminals at bay.

Instead, they concentrate on the weakest link. The user. Hence the never-ending spear-fishing campaigns designed to snare the careless or ignorant user.