December 14, 2007
He revealed interesting facts about Facebook, for example, 89% of Facebook users reveal their real name. And 87% of CMU Facebook profiles reveal birthday, 51% reveal the address, 40% reveal their phone number (40%!). 61% of the posted images are suited for direct identification. Remember that this information will never disappear, it’s stored forever in many computers (facebook servers, google servers, archive.org servers and … as the following discussion easily revealed, governments servers…

- Trust and Reputation - Paolo blog

It’s clear that people don’t think about the potential consequences of the info they share online and that companies obscure the fact that they save everything.