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> Facebook is what you make of it. It offers relatively granular control over who you want to see so if even you must be friends with someone, you can still unf
by twblalock 8y ago
> Facebook is what you make of it. It offers relatively granular control over who you want to see so if even you must be friends with someone, you can still unfollow them.
Recent events have demonstrated that the privacy controls are not what people think they are. Cambridge Analytica was able to access data belonging to the friends of people who granted certain permissions, and there was a recent data breach caused by a bug in an impersonation feature. Advertisers are able to see quite a lot of information too.
- sdrothrock 8y agoI don't think this is related to what bfred_it is saying. To me, he's saying "if you have 1500 friends, use Facebook's follow/unfollow feature to improve your S/N ratio while still being friends with those people." That is, rather than privacy (controlling outgoing information), he's discussing the ability to filter incoming information.
- bfred_it 8y agoThat’s correct. I’m not talking about what happens to your data but about what you see on your feed.