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No, I'm really happy with the service that they provide. If there's something that's actually private, I'm not going to be posting it on the Internet in the fir
by cmelbye 17y ago
No, I'm really happy with the service that they provide. If there's something that's actually private, I'm not going to be posting it on the Internet in the first place.
- steveissuperman 17y agoSeriously. I can't believe how differently others view facebook compared to me. I log in every now and then and talk to some old friends who I wouldn't be able to contact otherwise. What info is everyone so scared of getting out? What's the harm in targeted ads? Not like most of us are going to see them anyway.
- jamesjyu 17y agoHear hear to that! I'm always puzzled by all these privacy nuts that go on and on about privacy problems with social media sites like Facebook. If something is absolutely private and you do not want to share it outside of one or two people, DO NOT put it on a social media site! Period. In fact, I would go as far as to say never put any critically sensitive information on the web.
- ams6110 17y agoAbsolutely. I sum it up as: "What happens on the internet, stays on the internet".
- rokhayakebe 17y ago"What happens on the internet, sprays on the internet. Fast. And Forever."
- minalecs 17y agowell sometimes its your friends.. that will put pictures up of you without knowing, or will tag you in and can't remove it yourself
- derefr 17y agoNot having a Facebook account will not prevent people from posting pictures of you on their own, and even including your name in the picture description (thereby "tagging" you in every way except the notification.)
- timr 17y agoNot having Facebook will not prevent people from posting pictures of you on the web. The horse is pretty far out of the barn on that one.
- kmavm 17y ago"well sometimes its your friends.. that will put pictures up of you without knowing, or will tag you in and can't remove it yourself" As many have pointed out, this happens already in blogs and email, on twitter, in various forums, etc., and not joining facebook will do nothing to prevent it from happening on facebook. But more importantly, if you don't want your friends doing X or Y to you on facebook, you have a very powerful method of ensuring that at your disposal: make it clear that you find this unacceptable when it happens. Over time, people get the message before making the mistake, and these expectations harden into social norms. Ultimately, relying on these social norms is much more robust than relying on technological solutions, in my opinion.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI thought that one could now veto tags for yourself in pictures? Doesn't prevent you being named in the description.
- zmmmmm 17y agoSo in your view, people should just have "one or two" friends on Facebook? How many people do you know who actually use Facebook like that? Do you really think that is the intended purpose of Facebook?
- jacquesm 17y agoThe sum total of a bunch of innocent stuff posted about you by others can add up to a lot more than the parts if someone decides to put it together. I read this a few days ago: http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ Privacy is even more dead than I ever suspected.
- araneae 17y agoI agree with you generally, but the most damning information about me that's on Facebook was posted by other people.
- tptacek 17y agoAnd me leaving Facebook solves that problem how? At least now I see when that kind of stuff happens.
- potatolicious 17y agoIt's a good point - leaving Facebook won't solve things like drunken pictures posted by your friends. It will, however, stop things like "Yooooo, did you hit that last night? Wasssuppp!" on your Wall that your family, colleagues and potential employers can see.
- tome 17y agoYou can choose to make your wall read only.
- sendos 17y agoI always thought the best solution to all this is if we had multiple Facebook accounts, e.g. "Bob Smith (1)", "Bob Smith (2)", etc, and then invited family only to (1), close friends to (2), old high school classmates to (3), etc. This way, if any of them posts something stupid on your wall, only that subgroup will know about it. Then, of course, you'd need an app that lets you post the same status update on all your accounts.
- abraham 17y agoIf you have friends like that it is your own fault. Expect duche friends to pull duche moves.
- joshhart 17y agoI had a fraternity brother in college who was gay. At some point in time, he realized that he was gay, but didn't want to come out. An incriminating picture was posted on facebook and he was forced to reveal his sexual orientation to all of us (well we kinda suspected anyway) before he was ready in a pretty awkward way. He had to do the same not that long after with his family and it didn't go well at all. All because someone posted a picture on facebook that was up for less than 30 minutes. I put the blame mainly on the person who put up the picture, but still, he should have had control over this kind of thing.
- paul9290 17y agoI wonder how many of the hackers here who want to remain private take chances and look to create innovative things that are out of the normal(i.e.Twitter/Blippy)? They seem adverse to change.
- lleger 17y agoDear god, a post about Facebook's privacy change that's logical, non-extremist and generally makes sense. Thank you.
- zmmmmm 17y agoIt sounds pretty extremist to me. This person is apparently so paranoid they will not use any form of hosted service, email, etc, or if they do, they only put things in there that they trust the entire universe to see. I would say that puts them in a tiny minority of people - ie. quite extreme.
- ElbertF 17y agoAre you ready to share your online behavior with everyone, including all the sites you visit and videos you watch? Are you ready to have your picture used in ads your friends see? Because that's where this is going.