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I think this addendum the user whose tweet you posted has describes it quite well: http://cl.ly/18ax http://cl.ly/18ax Twitter users, unless they protect their

by ihodes 16y ago

I think this addendum the user whose tweet you posted has describes it quite well: http://cl.ly/18ax http://cl.ly/18ax Twitter users, unless they protect their tweets (in which case you're not searching though them: surprise!), know that everyone can see their tweets. Facebook users have "friended" the people they want to see their status updates. Either you're genuinely confused, in which case I hope I've cleared things up, or you're using this as a red herring.

pavs 16y ago
Either you're genuinely confused, in which case I hope I've cleared things up, or you're using this as a red herring. >Not a big user of either twitter or facebook, But I am trying to understand this. You know there are people out there who are actually foreign to how Facebook works because either they don't use it or find it silly. I am not trying to defend facebook or twitter. I actually find the whole idea of following around people's mundane activity utterly stupid. ~400 million people obviously thinks otherwise.
natrius 16y ago
You are assuming people don't know that they're sharing with more than just their friends. You don't have any data to back this up. There is, however, evidence to the contrary. 35% of users adjusted their settings when presented with the privacy transition dialog back in December, and that's not including the people who had modified their privacy settings in the past, which made them not default to "Everyone". http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_brags_35_adjusted_their_privacy_settings.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_brags_35_adjus... Some of these people in the search results know they're sharing with everyone. Some don't. The mere presence of people who don't understand their privacy settings doesn't suggest that a large portion of the Facebook userbase shares that confusion.

by ihodes 16y ago

pavs 16y ago

Either you're genuinely confused, in which case I hope I've cleared things up, or you're using this as a red herring. >Not a big user of either twitter or facebook, But I am trying to understand this. You know there are people out there who are actually foreign to how Facebook works because either they don't use it or find it silly. I am not trying to defend facebook or twitter. I actually find the whole idea of following around people's mundane activity utterly stupid. ~400 million people obviously thinks otherwise.

natrius 16y ago

You are assuming people don't know that they're sharing with more than just their friends. You don't have any data to back this up. There is, however, evidence to the contrary. 35% of users adjusted their settings when presented with the privacy transition dialog back in December, and that's not including the people who had modified their privacy settings in the past, which made them not default to "Everyone". http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_brags_35_adjusted_their_privacy_settings.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_brags_35_adjus... Some of these people in the search results know they're sharing with everyone. Some don't. The mere presence of people who don't understand their privacy settings doesn't suggest that a large portion of the Facebook userbase shares that confusion.