Dare Obasanjo wades into the Facebook privacy issue with some words of wisdom:

At the end of the day, many people would like to use technology to solve what is essentially a social problem instead of adjusting their behavior. The bottom line is that even though it is technically possible for Facebook to delete my private messages from your inbox when I decide to delete my account, it would be harmful to your user experience AND it doesn't buy me anything since you've already seen the content. The real solution is for me not to have sent any messages to you that I'll later regret in the first place.

Even if you can un-send or delete content, you can't possibly delete all of the memories of it. I've had long conversations with my daughter about this: the stuff she and her friends put on Facebook over the next few years may well come back to haunt them when they hit my age. We had it simpler: no one was recording our youthful indiscretions.

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