What people would be smart not to do with Facebook (and I do use Facebook, and see this all the time) is going into any of the applications that aren't legitimate. And by that I mean, don't click on just anything in Facebook. I have seen tons of people involving themselves (generally out of fear or hope!) in "join this and you'll get that!" and it ends up you're downloading something (because gods know people will put anything on their computers for some reason) that gives you a virus. Legitimate games out of (for example) Zynga may have bots that collect data (that's all over the computer now, you can't escape it anywhere, so no more use being freaked out by it) - but they're not putting out the viruses that idiots that live in their mother's basements are throwing at people with a baited hook - and people are biting all over. This, and the stupid "put this on your profile! someone is doing something somewhere, pass it on!" daily horror stories are the two most idiotic things I have seen yet there. But I suppose that's because so many people are naive about the internet and how it works, or something.
That post about the video games and Skinner box is about right on, by the way. (Said the rat.)
