I agree it may be overkill.  I have old accounts too, my Yahoo.com address is so old it still has a 4 digit password.I'm not shill for Backupify it's just a cool free service that works well and requires no work on my part.Just wanted to share it with the community.  Some will find the tip useful others may not.  And that's OK too. 

 Actually mpscan Facebook keeps moving the bar on what is and is not private.  The"contract" we entered into was the privacy policy at Facebook anddespite your sarcasm it is real.Facebook entered into an agreement with its user base that things marked private would be private.  However, Facebook has routinely changed its privacy settingsafter the fact and although they allow me to continue to update my privacysettings, the default after a privacy upgrade is to opt everyone into"public" until we tell the otherwise.Now I as a full-on nerd routinely monitor my settings but people less nerdy and OCD than me don't and without their knowing are now sharing more than they thought.I'm fully capable of locking down my info on Facebook.  I'm just choosing notto be a user of a service I don't respect.  There are restaurants where Idon't eat at because I don't like the service I get even if I like their food.Facebook serves food I like, I can't stand their service.

I personally closed my facebook account. Twice when the privacy policy's changed all my info reverted back to everyone. Just because I want my friends to see my pics doesn't mean I want everyone to see them. Almost every major radio news organization has done a story on facebook and their privacy problems so there is no reason to be rude to someone who is just stating what most of us know.

1) Facebook doesn't adhere to their policies
2) Facebook changes their privacy policies routinely and auto opts you in anyways
3) Facebook buries a lot of their privacy settings, making them difficult to change even if you wanted to

In truth, the "simple solution to a simple problem" theory has been thrown around by quite a few commentators, but it really just shows that you don't grasp the scope of the problem. First, it's been revealed that among the various pieces of data being sold to advertisers by Facebook is the data relating to where clicks originate from...in other words, if you click on an ad, even by accident, the advertiser knows not only that they got a hit, but by whom. Further, you can't control the use of information arising from innocent postings by friends. There are myriad other areas that are beyond your direct control that aren't addressed by the "don't post it if you don't want it shared" philosophy; a naive position to say the least.