I understand his argument - in many cases, leakage of information Facebook is simply the web working as designed.
That is, people use Facebook as a web publishing platform and anyone in the world can access it. The same argument applies to Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest, whatever.
The problem is that when users do want to control how their information on Facebook is shared (which Facebook tricks you into thinking is possible) they have to fight against Facebook's labyrinth of anti-privacy settings.
Facebook also doesn't work as expected since nominally "private" information is routinely leaked to advertisers and users of Facebook's social graph API.
Facebook also systematically misuses private information, for example requesting mobile numbers for 2-factor authentication and account recovery, but then using those same mobile numbers for a unrelated purpose: linking you with businesses that you had to give a phone number to for a credit card purchase.
In reality, I don't think he's that wrong here. The majority of FB users really don't care overly much about their privacy or expect FB to take it seriously - they just want a free social platform for posting their stuff and interacting with people. What could be argued here is degree. A lot of users probably expect that there is some privacy line FB and other social platforms shouldn't cross, but where that line actually lies is up for debate.
There is precedent because fb switched to https everywhere. That's just an example of users wanting privacy once they learned people could spy on them via firesheep because fb allowed it. Unfortunately, there isn't a straight forward technology that can keep things private, that would require fb to make something that keeps privacy protected.
That is, people use Facebook as a web publishing platform and anyone in the world can access it. The same argument applies to Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest, whatever.
The problem is that when users do want to control how their information on Facebook is shared (which Facebook tricks you into thinking is possible) they have to fight against Facebook's labyrinth of anti-privacy settings.
Facebook also doesn't work as expected since nominally "private" information is routinely leaked to advertisers and users of Facebook's social graph API.
Facebook also systematically misuses private information, for example requesting mobile numbers for 2-factor authentication and account recovery, but then using those same mobile numbers for a unrelated purpose: linking you with businesses that you had to give a phone number to for a credit card purchase.