XKCD on the dishonesty implicit in the sharing options in social media

This is essentially a rephrasing of what I was going to say, which is that the real dishonesty is that Option 1 (300 friends) almost always turns out to be exactly the same as Option 2 (the world at large), due to totally unforeseeable technical issues that the social media platform promises to get right on and fix … again, and again, and again. Trusting a social media company to keep your information private (or restricted, or whatever) is like trusting a teenage girl to keep a secret from her friends. It’s just not gonna happen.

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