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Facebook itself used to have this level of privacy protection. You could join a group and post on the wall and in the forums for that group privately. If your
by sounddust 16y ago
Facebook itself used to have this level of privacy protection. You could join a group and post on the wall and in the forums for that group privately. If your privacy settings were to disallow non-friends from seeing your profile, then it would just show your first name and a generic placeholder as your photo. Your name would be unclickable and therefore untraceable to you unless you had a unique first name.
Ironically, right before the big push to erode users' privacy, it seemed that they might have taken it a step further and replaced your name with "facebook user", removing even your first name (I was never sure if this was intentional or a bug, but in any case it didn't last long as the big privacy changes came soon after).
- gaius 16y agoThe thing is, this doesn't even make sense for FB to do. I've removed my interests and activities from my profile. Before the ads I got shown were basically relevant - they were mainly for products and services connected to those sports I listed, for example. Now the ads I get shown are fairly random. So Facebook have reduced my value to them as a set of eyeballs to show ads to. How can anyone at FB have thought this was a good idea?
- krschultz 16y agoI've done the same thing as you and noticed the same effect on the ads shown to me, but when I mentioned my privacy concerns to some friends the other night, most just said "so what, I don't have much of value on Facebook anyway". I think the mass of people (even intelligent people) don't have the same privacy concerns as a lot of the "tech informed" crowd does. We know how valuable the data is and what can be done with it, that makes us much more sensitive to giving it up.