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How is your friend list still public information, if you set it to private? You are suggesting that the privacy settings don't actually do anything, which is in
by LiveTheDream 16y ago
How is your friend list still public information, if you set it to private? You are suggesting that the privacy settings don't actually do anything, which is inaccurate.
For example, if your friend list privacy is set to "Everyone", accessing your facebook page while logged out will show a random sample of your friends. Switch the privacy setting to "only friends" or something restrictive, return to the profile page in a logged out state, and note that your friends no longer are displayed.
- pasbesoin 16y agoThe friends list is still available to third parties through the data API's. How long until a third party provides that data as a product? Actually, Facebook itself is already offering that data to employers, IIRC. EDIT: To clarify, I'm not talking about the publicly exposed "graph". I'm talking about what they've long provided to their third party affiliates, e.g. all the approved Facebook "application" developers/hosts. P.S. Notice the nice information asymmetry involved in this, as well. You, as a private individual, have no access to this. But designated (and / as in paying) parties do, at the sole selection (I think I'll avoid use of the word "discretion") of Facebook.