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Today Facebook is really asking for bad press about its default user settings. This just made it to the BBC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1711973 http://
by pierrefar 16y ago
Today Facebook is really asking for bad press about its default user settings. This just made it to the BBC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1711973 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1711973
- aw3c2 16y agowhy not link directly to the BBC? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-11376350 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-113763...
- pierrefar 16y agoBecause I thought it was a relevant (if still nascent) discussion here on HN.
- notahacker 16y agoI suspect that story had a lot to do with prank celebrity accounts etc stirring things up and very little to do with event invitations being public by default. I'm pretty sure you could achieve similar results by publishing a private email (or paper) invitation with a call to action somewhere like 4chan. I'm also equally certain this doesn't normally happen with the millions of other small personal events that have been publically listed on Facebook. It's easy enough to point fingers at a company with as little apparent regard for privacy as Facebook, without searching for non-issues and exceptional cases to be outraged by.