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Yet another move by Facebook to show utter disrespect for their users. Sure, we will all read the dialog before giving away our email address. However, 90% of F
by benofsky 17y ago
Yet another move by Facebook to show utter disrespect for their users. Sure, we will all read the dialog before giving away our email address. However, 90% of Facebook's users wont.
Proof: when they updated the privacy settings a few months ago to default to public. Pretty much everyone in my friends list now have their profiles fully public. Craziness.
- steveklabnik 17y agoHow is giving people the option to make things public disrespectful?
- benofsky 17y agoBecause Facebook know very well that people don't read things, they should but they don't, and they take advantage of this. The point is it shouldn't default to public (which it does if you've never touched your privacy settings which previously defaulted to public).
- steveklabnik 17y ago> Because Facebook know very well that people don't read things, they should but they don't, and they take advantage of this. As far as I'm concerned, if you log into a website, and a modal dialog comes up, and you don't read what it says and just click "yes"... you deserve what you get. I don't see anything wrong with things defaulting to public, either. Most things you do on the internet are public, or at least associated with your username. Such is life.
- benofsky 17y agoWhen you signed up for Facebook though you signed up under the assumption that your data was private.
- steveklabnik 17y agoMaybe you did. Regardless of assumptions, they threw the options right up there in front of you, and made you choose one. No excuses.