I stopped using Facebook years ago because I felt it was just too invasive. I've felt like a technological Luddite ever since, but boy are Zuckerberg & Co. ever doing their level best to make me look prescient!
When a honeypot this big is right there for the taking, there’s no amount of threats that’ll dissuade the bad actors. The solution is refreshingly simple: don’t allow sensitive information to accumulate in such quantities and at such high concentration.
If they exist, need to also implement strong security compartmentalization, logging, oversight, etc. to prevent.
And, the stick needs to be bigger too, not only firing from one job, but blacklisting from others, and prosecution. You do that, you're not only done, you're out of a career, and will be lucky to not find yourself in jail. (I'm no usually that punitive, but that level of casual abuse...)
perhaps bliss is a better word
What's changing is the tolerance some ppl (e.g., you, me, the HN'er above your comment) have for it's mindless minutia, as well as the privacy issues.
The takeaway for me is simple: the evolution of humans - FB the Big Inc and the masses that feed its bottom line -is greatly exaggerated. Could some of the devo'ing be due to FB? I suppose. But for the most part, the signs have been there all along, FB just made it undeniable.
It's a massive collective blindspot.
I mainly use Facebook for the messaging.