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" Even where some of this information was previously publicly visible, it wasn't so conveniently publicly indexed; someone would have to visit individual profil

" Even where some of this information was previously publicly visible, it wasn't so conveniently publicly indexed; someone would have to visit individual profiles in order to turn it up." Previously, the text in these boxes was a link to a search result for users who mentioned this text. Now it is a link to a Page where a small, random set of the users who mentioned the text are displayed. You can still control the visibility of these links on your profile. You'd still have to either visit a lot of users' profiles (and they'd have to have set their interests to be visible), or you'd have to reload a Page a lot of times. (As for "Favorite Quotes", I will look into what is going on with it). Thank you for your detailed feedback, btw.

nfnaaron 16y ago
"You can still control the visibility of these links on your profile." Is the following definition of "visibility" accurate in your context? http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/handy-facebook-english-translator#visibility http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/handy-facebook-english-... "As Facebook explains, "Keep in mind that Facebook Pages you connect to are public. You can control which friends are able to see connections listed on your profile, but you may still show up on Pages you're connected to." Likewise, "While you do have the option to hide your Friend List from being visible on your profile, it will be available to applications you use and websites you connect with using Facebook." Because Facebook deems this information "public," it reserves the right to share that information with its business partners and third party websites, regardless of your visibility settings. " "regardless of your visibility settings." So, we can "hides these links on your profile" from our friends, but we can't hide them from Facebook's "business partners and third party websites, regardless of your visibility settings?" Isn't that completely backwards from what people would want from a social site? If my understanding of this issue is correct (and I confess, I haven't been able to hold FB's privacy policy and settings regime in my head for some time), then this would be like hiding my street address from my friends but broadcasting my address to junk mail companies with a hearty "Catalogs? Send 'em here!"
pasbesoin 16y ago
Thank you in turn for your response and consideration. Separately, I'll mention the following just in case it is of any interest or use. Last night shortly before 11 pm Pacific time, I "fell" into what appeared to be the public view for a profile named "Everyone". My memory's hazy, but I believe this happened as the page flow returned to me when I was backing out of the privacy feature/page that allows one to view one's profile as it appears publicly. I backed out by clicking the button "Return..." dedicated to that purpose on that page. I'm not certain this is how the flow occurred, but it seems to be what I remember. If it's not the precise flow, it happened somewhere in the flow I used to view my publicly visible profile. If this is a concern, I can provide you a bit more in the way of details, out-of-band. (I doubt it would be the case, but in case this exposed some test or "magic" ID (the ID does look unusually long).) I just browser back buttoned to a former page and clicked "Home" or whatever to resume what I was doing.

nfnaaron 16y ago

"You can still control the visibility of these links on your profile." Is the following definition of "visibility" accurate in your context? http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/handy-facebook-english-translator#visibility http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/handy-facebook-english-... "As Facebook explains, "Keep in mind that Facebook Pages you connect to are public. You can control which friends are able to see connections listed on your profile, but you may still show up on Pages you're connected to." Likewise, "While you do have the option to hide your Friend List from being visible on your profile, it will be available to applications you use and websites you connect with using Facebook." Because Facebook deems this information "public," it reserves the right to share that information with its business partners and third party websites, regardless of your visibility settings. " "regardless of your visibility settings." So, we can "hides these links on your profile" from our friends, but we can't hide them from Facebook's "business partners and third party websites, regardless of your visibility settings?" Isn't that completely backwards from what people would want from a social site? If my understanding of this issue is correct (and I confess, I haven't been able to hold FB's privacy policy and settings regime in my head for some time), then this would be like hiding my street address from my friends but broadcasting my address to junk mail companies with a hearty "Catalogs? Send 'em here!"

pasbesoin 16y ago

Thank you in turn for your response and consideration. Separately, I'll mention the following just in case it is of any interest or use. Last night shortly before 11 pm Pacific time, I "fell" into what appeared to be the public view for a profile named "Everyone". My memory's hazy, but I believe this happened as the page flow returned to me when I was backing out of the privacy feature/page that allows one to view one's profile as it appears publicly. I backed out by clicking the button "Return..." dedicated to that purpose on that page. I'm not certain this is how the flow occurred, but it seems to be what I remember. If it's not the precise flow, it happened somewhere in the flow I used to view my publicly visible profile. If this is a concern, I can provide you a bit more in the way of details, out-of-band. (I doubt it would be the case, but in case this exposed some test or "magic" ID (the ID does look unusually long).) I just browser back buttoned to a former page and clicked "Home" or whatever to resume what I was doing.