“Ew, one of my coworkers just left the bathroom without washing her hands” was a recent status update from one of my “friends” who then went on to describe the bathroom environment in graphic detail. Way too much information. I decided to hide her updates.

Shortly before that, another of my friends clicked on the wrong link and was infected. Several of her friends urged turning up her privacy settings. <sigh>

Yesterday, women were posting their bra color to “raise awareness.” What, exactly, is “raising awareness?” Who does it help? Maybe the millions of Facebook posts would have had value if a link to some organization was published. No, the posts were just ”aqua” and “red” and “black” and so on. This wasn’t raising awareness – This was just another silly fad for the legions of Facebook lemmings.

Today another friend posted a bogus Haiti Relief update with phone numbers to “help.” Actually the phone number went to the Haitian consulate whose phones were completely overwhelmed. When this friend found out it was a prank to bring down the Haitian consulate’s phone number, did she take her post down to prevent more abuse? You already know the answer.

Another favorite are the users who post they’re going on vacation in Arizona for two weeks. Why not just post “Hello to all the thieves out there! My house will be unoccupied for two weeks. Help yourself!”

So I’m not playing any longer.

And in spite of my general distrust of Facebook applications, I’m going to recommend one link – The ACLU has published an application, that when run, shows how much information the application writers collect. If that doesn’t slow you down, I honesly don’t know what will.

• ACLU’s What Do Quizzes Really Know About You? quiz

Good luck, everyone!