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Facebook, on the other hand, does not make an effort to warn people the they’ve been tagged (possibly in an unflattering or compromising photo) and give them an
by Shenglong 15y ago
Facebook, on the other hand, does not make an effort to warn people the they’ve been tagged (possibly in an unflattering or compromising photo) and give them an immediate chance to remove the tag.
What? It definitely does. I get an email every time someone adds a picture of me. I also think a lot of us make an effort not to delete unflattering photos. Not every picture posted is nice, but it adds new dimensions to your online personality. If you don't like people adding your pictures, you can always change your privacy settings.
Most of these reasons other than data liberation are very one-sided. Facial recognition can be seen as a bad thing, but some would argue it's a nice feature. Although, honestly, what information on my Facebook would I want to liberate anyway? My years-old wall posts of "Omg I miss you" and "lol up!!!" that I never even look at?
- thomasgerbe 15y agoI also get updates on Facebook if I've been tagged. And if you remove the tag, no one can tag you on that photo ever again.
- unicornporn 15y agoIf I understand things correctly... On G+ the notification email tells you someone _wants_ to tag a photo of you (it can't be tagged without your consent). On Facebook it gets tagged, you get the notification and you have to go to Facebook to remove the tag. That is an important difference.
- reso 15y agoAgreed. Some of the points were downright incorrect. The "Mobile App" one completely disregards that, while the G+ Android app may be superior, G+ doesn't even have an iPhone app, while Facebook does.
- kanamekun 15y agoI think the larger point the author was making is that Google has a massive installed base of Mobile OS users, through its Android platform: "Google will seek more and more ways to make your Android phone a seemless appendage of your Google+ social platform." Google+'s iPhone app is coming soon, and in the meantime you can access its web app through your browser: http://www.google.com/mobile/+/ http://www.google.com/mobile/+/ Facebook just has mobile apps, and no mobile browser or OS (at least, so far). This positions Google+ fairly well in its efforts to build a social networking beachhead to compete with FB.
- thurn 15y agoI'll admit that I'm deeply biased by being a Facebook intern, but why is Data Liberation better than the equivalent feature on Facebook?
- Shenglong 15y agoBecause we're actually aware of it. I've been using Facebook since 2006, and I've never heard of such a feature on Facebook... and I know all about privacy settings and other features. Does Facebook actually have an export feature?
- kmavm 15y agoAccount settings -> Security -> 'Click here to download a copy of the data you've put on Facebook.' This downloads a .zip file with a static html human-browsable index of all your photos, notes, posts, friends' names, etc.
- bad_user 15y agoDoes it download your friends' public email addresses and phone numbers? If no, why not?
- rufibarbatus 15y agoNo. Facebook's explanation is that because they respect your privacy, they think you should be able to withdraw access to contact information whenever you see fit. In order for that to work, it goes, your friends should only be able to access contact information from within FB's walled garden, and never be able to export it. (Also the reason contact scraping Apps are met with cease and desist letters.) BTW, you can export your friends' birthdays from the events page. This data is not included in the aforementioned bundle.
- unicornporn 15y agoThat is where this [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2729084 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2729084 ] extension entered.