I'm not understanding your surprise here. At the age of 18, you have been literally conceived and raised in the internet age. THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WORKS. Especially social networking sites.
It's kinda difficult to be a social network if they delete information about their members.
1. "Ghost profiles." WHERE is this accusation made and justified? The best I've found are references like this:
"He also suspected of creating Facebook “ghost profiles”, which collect information on people who have not created accounts, without having said." An unsubstantiated suspicion is not proof.
Source:
http://www.dailytechnician.info/fac...deleted-data-and-creating-ghost-profiles-2961
2. "Nothing will ever be removed from their database." First of all, anybody who posts something on the internet without understanding the the entire network functions through various redundant systems, let alone specific servers in use for sites like Facebook (and THR), has a serious deficiency in their understanding. And read their statement of rights and responsibilities. FB clearly says
"When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others)."
3. "They keep detailed logs." Why yes...yes they do. This is how networks and servers work. It's how they know where to find the data people post. It's integral to how the system communicates and functions.
4. "They know alot more about you then you would want, every private message, every page/thing viewed." Then quit posting things you don't want people to know about. In today's day and age, people get nervous about posting their name, address, and phone number...yet we did this for decades via telephone books. A social network isn't much of a social network if people can't post all kinds of social networking stuff, so of COURSE they know all this stuff...because people are POSTING it.
5. "They keep your log on time and log off times aswell as your IP address from that location."
News flash here...THR is doing the same thing. And your banking websites. And your email sites. And your school sites. In fact EVERY site does this...again, because this is how the system WORKS. If it didn't know your IP address, then you wouldn't be able to post and receive information from the site.
If I seem harsh here, I apologize. The stuff you posted isn't unique to you, so don't think my response is all about you. It's actually all about a lot of other people who bring up these things who evidently don't understand the very basics about how networks function in order to communicate, transmit and store data, provide functional reliability and redundancy, and synch together properly to do all this.
BOTTOM LINE:
If you don't want certain information to be posted, then take the care required to see to it that it's not posted...and work to remedy it if something DOES get posted that you don't want.
