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So he's basically saying (loudly) that facebook changed the default privacy settings to be more permissive, which is true. On the other hand, when facebook chan
by lmkg 17y ago
So he's basically saying (loudly) that facebook changed the default privacy settings to be more permissive, which is true. On the other hand, when facebook changed the default privacy settings, they put a giant-ass unmistakable pop-up message telling you about this and literally did not let you access the rest of the site until you had read about it. And the old privacy settings are still available.
I trust facebook not to give away more information than I tell them to, because when they got burned for that before they reacted well and learned from their mistakes. They're certainly encouraging people to open up, and I'm a bit wary of that, but they're a far cry from jumping the shark.
- vegashacker 17y agoTrue. But that popup was pretty confusing. It took me a while to grok it, and even then I wasn't exactly sure what my settings were going to be after clicking Done. When I went to check out the new feature of "what my page looks like to most people" (whatever that means), I was very surprised to see that my fan pages showed up. And apparently people who hadn't tweaked their default privacy settings before (which is probably most people), had the "Everyone" option selected by default. I'm not saying Facebook was intentionally doing something shady, but my reaction was, "Wow, a lot of people are going to be tricked by this."
- ebdicrocks 17y agoMy thoughts exactly. What wasn't properly communicated by the tool, even to someone who was paying attention, was that my profile picture and my name are now public. AND that I cannot change that. Not explaining this clearly, especially to people like me who had their profile pic privacy set to "Friends only" before, is what I would consider a breach of trust.
- unalone 17y agohttp://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy§ion=search http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy§ion=se... Took me five seconds to find that. Privacy Settings >> Search. How is that hard? http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=photos http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=photos Another five seconds. Privacy Settings >> Profile >> Photos.
- kelnos 17y agoNot disputing what you're saying, but... one thing I'd like to see -- which I thought was available before, but maybe not -- is the ability to set my current profile photo as viewable by 'Everyone' (so anyone can find me in a search listing and have a reasonable chance knowing it's actually me based on my profile pic, and not just someone with the same name), but set the contents of my Profile Pictures album to 'Friends Only'. For now I've set it to 'Friends of Friends' as a hopefully-reasonable compromise, figuring that most of the people I meet are via introductions from friends, and the fact that my (full) name is surprisingly pretty unique.
- unalone 17y agoI think that if you set your profile picture album to Friends Only, that still displays your profile picture to other people. I have mine on display for others, but you can't click though to see others.
- jrmurad 17y ago> And the old privacy settings are still available Not quite. I previously relied on one particular setting which seems to no longer exist. I had a "Limited Profile" list of friends who had my full list of friends hidden from them. (One of my friends is the type who might contact/annoy any other female on my friends list who she's unfamiliar with to find out who they are.) From what I've read, you have no choice but to share your list of friends with all of them. There also used to be an option to hide it from everyone but yourself.
- wooster 17y ago"And the old privacy settings are still available." So where is this setting: "Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads" ?