davidbr02

No more so than it would be a donation to a car dealership if a car thief bought a car.

Accessing a user's page from the regular directory will also allow you to click through to friends' profiles. This is nothing that wasn't already available.

Then nobody would ever be able to buy a house with anything less than cash.

Nobody has a guaranteed job for the next 30 years

I'm sure he feels really dumb as he swims around in his Scrooge McDuck style swimming pool of gold coins

I just feel like after the recent legitimate privacy concerns Facebook has had, people are now trying to break the next big Facebook scandal and in doing so are bringing up pretty ridiculous points like your public information being public. I don't feel that this is a failure on Facebook's part, it is a failure on the users part for not understanding what public means or just not paying attention.

You mean my public status updates are public?!? The horror!

I had a similar thought progression, but then I went from "What did we do?" to "Oh crap is Jupiter going to blow up or something" and finally "Wait, that is stupid"

I'm sure it will turn up in the last place you look for it

I was worried about the same thing before I got my iPhone... sure I used it more when I first got it because of the novelty, but since it is actually incredibly useful I still use it all the time.

A bread-maker isn't the same because it only does one thing. It makes bread. An iPad/iPhone does a million things and I am still discovering new ways to use my iPhone.

Now whether the same kind of usability translates from the iPhone to the iPad is yet to be seen, and I'm a little skeptical if only because of the reduced portability, but it is hardly on the same level as your bread-maker.

The same bread-maker argument could be made for a laptop, or a PC, or any number of things

"Until we figure out the best way to market this 'feature' to our advertisers"

Yes, but the others I want to let know are my friends, not some random person I don't even know