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I can email you without your approval, what's your point? That's an identical amount of control that you're surrendering. I don't get the frenzy-Facebook-rage.

• middlegeek 16y ago
  "identical amount of control that you're surrendering." Not at all. If you send me an email without me asking, there is no public effect. One example of how this is bad with groups is what if I happen to be on a job search and someone adds me to the "I steal office supplies from my employer and sell them on eBay" group. Let's say a prospective employer is a friend of a FB friend of mine and looks at my profile and sees this. Job offer gone.
  • chopsueyar 16y ago
    Obviously, you have never worked as part of an office supply thieves guild. Much of the guild's recruiting is done via Facebook.
  • sofuture 16y ago
    Counterpoint: you can remove yourself from a Facebook group, you can't remove yourself from a webpage or mailing list that someone else has control of. How's this so terrible again?
• mbreese 16y ago
  Email is private. Being displayed as a member of a Facebook group is quasi-public (depending on your privacy settings, I believe). Big difference.