Is Facebook stalking you?

Great.  Right after I trumpet Facebook in this space, I see this weblog piece about how Facebook's partners pay for the right to announce to your entire Facebook network that you bought movie tickets at a certain day and time. 

If this is true, it's not cool.  Not cool at all.  I like the people in my Facebook network, but I don't want people to have this level of information about me.  In particular, I like to have control over it. 

I'm not going to leave Facebook; one major reason I got sucked in was that I was missing out on Facebook-invite-only events through the network.  So my first step will be to re-associate my Facebook account with some random e-mail address that I barely ever use.  I won't get the bulletins very often, but hey - at least I'll retain some extra privacy.

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