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True. 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 D

True. 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 ago
My 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 ago
  http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=search http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=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 ago
    Not 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 ago
      I 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.

ebdicrocks 17y ago

My 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 ago
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=search http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=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 ago
  Not 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 ago
    I 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.