Comments on: Possible Facebook Privacy Fiasco Solution – Lie

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:47:35 +0000

Ok, please excuse my spelling mistakes. I didn’t look closely enough. Anyway I hope that the class action lawsuit is addressing this issue of friend visibility. I would like to be informed about that. I certainly give my support to major legal action. Another poster has hit it on the head. It appears they are ILLEGALLY sharing our private information, which they guaranteed previously NOT to share. IE., our friend lists etc.

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:42:08 +0000

I am furious that I have not choice to not show all my friends to everyone else. I carefully separate my personal friends, my work friends and my church friends and it was working quite well, thank you, until facebook made them all visible to all my friends.

I have locked things down much more as a result but it just doesn’t work anymore for me. I need to hide one list of friends from another so they don’t go and mix it up.

I am waiting for FB to revert the NO CHOICE for friend visibility and add the not visible to EVERYONE option as it was before. Until then my FB experience is crippled and I am seriously looking for options.

One option is to have three FB sites with different names for different purposes but then I have to do things three times and this is also against their policies and common sense.

I am a reasonable person but am become increasingly irritated with their greedy choices. Yes, greedy, they are making money by making us all more public. Thats the sum and substance of it, nothing less than that.

By: keezar

keezar — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:42:45 +0000

Read the facebook’s terms and conditions in order to find out if there was a change in the terms and conditions recently. what they have done is similar to taking your contacts in your phone and sharing them with everyone else on there and from what i can tell they didn’t give a clear and precise warning about this or an option out i believe this to be a major breach of the Data Protection Act here in the UK. from terms and conditions
“You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:…” now if that wouldn’t hold up in court, i’m not sure what would. facebook sold our private lives without asking… this is no different than stealing..

By: Jens Buch

Jens Buch — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:25:07 +0000

I have spent quite some time with this subject as well.
First, I have a video that explains every single facebook setting in detail (which is shared with ‘everyone’ on facebook). You can see it here: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=231093490585

Finally, I have also made a blog post that explains how facebook protects the settings that matters to them (the money settings). That one can be seen here: http://www.online-marketing.lu/blog/usability/facebook-privacy-setting s

By: Mark K

Mark K — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:38:11 +0000

Good, sound reasoning regarding Facebook’s new ill-conceived approach to privacy setting. The risk and danger to ‘over exposure’ will always be there in social networking if people are not circumspect about their dealings on such sites. Users should have a choice to stay ‘under the radar’ or tell the world the who-where-what of themselves.

Again, I stress that care and awareness of what is lurking out there should be the order of the day. If Facebook and other social sites start to impose unwarranted defaults on users, people have a choice to move away. It’s not the end of the world if one does not use Facebook or even Twitter. Sometimes, websites get too popular (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) and tend to shoot themselves in the foot.

By: Stuart Draper

Stuart Draper — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:12:55 +0000

Wouldn’t right now be the perfect time to launch a new “safe, social network” with a mission to be and stay like Facebook was! It has been said before that MySpace is the new Booty Call. In my eyes, Facebook just became the new booty call. Big mistake Facebook. Great points Andy.

By: Willem

Willem — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:31:49 +0000

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the interesting post.

In FB’s new world order, what are your recommended privacy settings, both for kids and yourself?

Cheers,
Willem

By: Sara T

Sara T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:29:34 +0000

That’s why I’ve refused to sign up my children for FB or any of those sites that open up privacy concerns. And I post only the most innocuous things on my own pages. If I don’t want information broadcast to the world I go through e-mail.

FB is, in my opinion, a wonderful resource for staying connected to friends and family, and it’s a growing resource for business networking, as well. But like any other networking opportunity there are plenty of ways it can be abused.