“ Tools such as the social graph API and data formats such as microformats don’t degrade privacy—on the web, there is no real privacy in obscurity—but as designers and developers, we need to find better ways to encourage users to make informed decisions about privacy. Most social media site approaches to privacy (and persona projection) are inadequate and unsophisticated compared to the ways in which we deal with privacy in the real world.
— Glenn Jones in A List Apart on public profiles across the web
