Facebook Data Sharing. Am I missing something?

I posted this as a comment on an article entitled "Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook". The biggest question for me as to whether I should stay with Facebook, is down to me knowing who I'm sharing my data with. Do I have the choice that the terms seem to say I have? From "http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=applications&field=learn"

"When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application or website, it may access any information you have made visible to everyone (Edit Profile privacy) as well as your publicly available information."

I read this to mean that only data I've stated is either public or accessible to all is accessible to applications. Since that for every item in my privacy settings I have selected "Only friends", I would expect that applications cannot access any data of mine other than my public profile.

If this assumption is wrong, please let me know!

Do the math

I'm not sure I needed to do a PhD to work this out, but who knows. The BBC3 TV channel costs £83m a year and reaches 1.7% of the population. The BBC 6Music radio station costs £7m a year and reaches 1% of the population. If you are on a cost-cutting exercise, which would you axe?

That's right, the £800K-a-year Director-General.

There's still time: sign the petition, leave feedback, send an email.

Hats

Hello. This is my first post on my new blog and so I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Philip McDermott, I'm from the UK, and I have a number of different hats. One even has horns, but I won't be wearing that one on here. Primarily in this blog I'll be writing with this hat on (not literally, although that is a comfy cap), as a researcher and software engineer, interested in data management and user interface design.

My next hat is this one, although strictly speaking it's more of a large pair of trousers than a hat. I'll sometimes be posting with this hat on, and hopefully those posts won't come out in a crazy ranting esoteric way. Not all the time.

My third main hat is this one, although we don't actually play in hats any more (we used to dress up a bit too often...). As a producer and laptop DJ I get to play with software and technologies that feed back into my original role as a researcher, and so for this reason sometimes this role will be allowed out to play, but mainly it will be consigned to the other blog.

I do also have a running hat, although it's normally too warm to wear one after a few minutes, and just gets in the way.

The one with the horns is staying in the cupboard, for now.