With recent Facebook updates, some users are concerned something bigger might happen with public access to information.
...On Wednesday, one small but alarming security hole was found in Facebook; the company attributed it to an engineering bug, and patched it.
On Thursday, PC World detailed that Facebook was "secretly adding" third-party applications to user profiles, something that the company once again attributed to a bug and said that it had been fixed. Investor-pundit Paul Kedrosky and fanboy idol Peter Rojas, former editor of Engadget and co-founder of GDGT, both announced on Thursday that they were deactivating their Facebook profiles.
Basically, Facebook is the Pacific Ring of the Web. In its six-year history the company has radically changed its product by implementing one small, step-by-step move after another...
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