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Facebook's graph search and the end of privacy by obscurity

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It often seems as though Facebook's (s fb) main purpose is to continually remind us of how much we have chosen to share with the world about our online behavior -- whether we realize it or not. The latest lesson along those lines comes from the social network's new "graph search," which sounds at first like a fairly boring feature of interest only to marketers.

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It's stories like this that reinforce why I'm not on Facebook. The idea of trumpeting every little fact about myself from the roof just sounds incredibly stupid to me.

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