Do you think that using an app called "Anarchist Gifts" on a website which has a fairly substantial CIA shareholding is a little bit like painting a target on your arse, to be aimed at in the future?
A subsidiary company of the CIA has a share of facebook. I think more than 1%, less than 10% but I can't remember how much. Your network of friends, or "social graph" is a really good way of identifying you and what you might do. That sounds fanciful but it's a reasonable bet that quite a lot of your behaviour is influenced by and targeted towards your peers.
"Anarchist Gifts" seems like it could be a honeypot trap, a lure, a ruse to divine the anarchist social graph. It may not be, but in any case any shareholder with a technical interest in Facebook may be able to access a network of self-proclaimed anarchists.
If I'm in your network and you're playing with "Anarchist Gifts" or similar, I'm obviously an anarchist sympathiser, or that's how it might seem. It wasn't very long ago that "anarchist" was a louder-proclaimed public foe than "terrorist", and it may not be very long before those days arrive again.
Facebook is a cool app, even for, perhaps especially for, anarchists. It's going to be a lynchpin of the next couple of years' internet usage. Use it. But don't paint a target on your own arse.
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