Before I write long pieces these days, I will usually email or instant message with a buddy of mine and work out the ideas in realtime or near realtime. In some ways, my longer stuff is a collection of these short blurbs.
No, but we should assume that someone working at the company where our mail is hosted could look at it. And more important, we should assume that the recipient could publish it someday.
Wow, I didn't read this as an attack on users or as a defense of facebook at all. Seems to me it's just the opposite and suggests that you can't trust anyone with your personal information.