Who Needs Enemies When You Have Facebook Friends?

It might be time to remove a) all your data and b) all third-party apps from your Facebook profile. Here’s why. Add a Facebook app–SuperPoke, all that kind of stuff –and you’re required to agree to “allow this application to…know who I am and access my information.” Disagree and you can’t install it. Now this may be fine for you. But what the application doesn’t say is that the application is also now able to access the private data of your friends.

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