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Help me out here...maybe I'm just down right stupid, but I deactivated my account and when I click on that link, it takes me to the sign on page. When you enter you name and password it takes you to your account which is then reactivated with all the information still present. If it was deleted then I should not have been able to sign in. It should have shown no account found.

Hmmmm..so I guess I need to check back in two weeks. It didn't say anything about that when I deactivated it, just that it was deactivated. You know the sad thing about this is, I just joined facebook two weeks ago because I needed to find a family member..

You just need better friends. Just kidding.

Personally, I appreciate knowing what is going on in my friends', family's, old roomates' and former coworkers' lives. Yeah, I could probably pick up the phone instead and have a much more meaningful conversation, but there is something to be said for having them all hanging out in one place 24/7 to entertain me. The privacy stuff is definitely a concern, but that pretty much goes for everything on the web.

So probably some of my friends and aquaintances who signed up in FB let FB scan their Yahoo address list, and FB grabbed my non-FB email address and saved it in their database.  Some did not invite me because I was already in their network with the other email address, some invited me through my main email address, and then I invited them through FB and not added them through their invitation.  And the other people I don't know are probably friends of these friends who had their address books scanned, and FB suggested that we may also be friends.  Freaky indeed, and it is amazing that people would let FB scan their Yahoo Mail anyway.

I'm not on FB - I spend WAY too much time online as it is.  Don't need another time-waster.

But my husband was shocked to see how much info he was given about distant relatives he barely knows that friended him.  Why do they think he wants to know how much time his distant cousin is spending playing Farmville, and what her score was?  Snore...  He deleted his account. 

A good friend of mine has been forbidden to babysit her grandson because her daughter in-law was able to view how much time she was spending playing some game on facebook while the baby was napping.  Now they aren't even speaking.  Really, that is way too intrusive IMO. 

If I have no life that's nobody's business but mine

As far as I read on tech blogs, they just simplified the user interface to the privacy, so you don't have to wade through pages of settings any more (often overlooked). The policy staid the same. They don't honor "Delete account" properly, and only Zuck knows what data they keep after you went. It's clear what Zuck thinks about his users: "Dumb f@cks".
There are fine social networks, with proper privacy, like MySpace and Friendster. I don't understand what this brat made take over the world. Pure arrogance will be amongst the reasons.

I'm not sure if there is another way but here's the way we use FB .. create a personal profile that is more or less for business use then create the page attached to that profile. We direct people to both from our website. We encourage potential clients we are targeting to become a friend so that we can build on the personal relationship with the client through direct contact which creates bigger sales / loyal return clients. Then we get them to fan the page to maintain professionalism. Using the two profiles in conjunction creates the perfect FB marketing program ... For family and friends you don't want trying to chat you up when you are networking you can either group them as family & friends then turn off the chat for that group while working or you can do what a lot of people do and just create another account for personal use.
FB ads are a waste of time I think. We invested into a 3 month trial run on them last year and they honestly didn't produce. They didn't cost hardly anything but they didn't return a profit either. Might depend on your target audience though. Some fields may produce better results.