The firestorm over Facebook's rapidly shrinking privacy protections shows no sign of abating, but you wouldn't know it by listening to Facebook. According to them, the vast majority of users are totally sanguine with the social network's increasingly generous data sharing policies - it's just us cranks in the press who are b**** and moaning.

Ethan Beard, director of Facebook's developer network, had this to say in an interview with Computerworld's Sharon Gaudin:

"I think the response from users that we've seen from the products we launched at [Facebook's F8 developer conference late last month] has been quite positive. People are actively opting-in to engage with the social Web. The response from users speaks very, very loudly that they love what we're doing. I think there's a lot of other talk that's not coming from users necessarily. There's been a lot of interest from the media, from organizations and officials. But to be honest, the user response has been overwhelmingly positive."

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