Shoutbox

With wrong usage I mean:
-Accepting a condition where you give booth the approval to collect and show the information that you would like to hide;
"At some Microsoft sites, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address, which is used to create a Microsoft billing account."

-Put the information you want to hide in a profile you accepted to be showed in the network.
"Microsoft collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites and services. These uses may include providing you with more effective customer service; making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and displaying content and advertising that are customized to your interests and preferences. For more information about the use of information for advertising, see the Display of Advertising section below."



Then you shouldn't have put your real name first/last on your profile agreeing with those terms.

I'm not saying it's your fault, I'm saying that they got your approval to do that when you agreed those terms, so you can't really do nothing else then unregister and stop using it, if you don't like it.

I understand your point, even if you don't seem to be willing to understand my point, but the only thing you can do if you don't like it is to, stop to use it, give them a feedback, and hope for a change that you will like.

I don't see really a lot of difference between Live and the other social networks, I'd say that Live made the microsoft social network really the same of the others, not saying that it's good, it's just really really similar atm.