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Keith, I would like a feature to clear my facebook search history/profile view history. I consider it a privacy issue. The knowledge that anyone who stumbles a
by AmericanOP 15y ago
Keith, I would like a feature to clear my facebook search history/profile view history. I consider it a privacy issue.
The knowledge that anyone who stumbles across my logged-in profile can see who I'm interested in by experimenting in my friend search bar has a chilling effect on the profiles I view. Google and most browsers have a 'clear search history' feature- it would be nice if facebook had the same.
- haberman 15y agoIf someone you don't trust has access to your logged-in profile, you have much worse problems. For example, they can read all of your private mail and send mail as you.
- Joakal 15y agoI think you mean their private Facebook inbox. They may already be limiting what they do on Facebook. But they can't clear the history thing. The potential "victum's fault" is still no excuse.
- davedx 15y agoSomeone not looking after their own security by leaving logged in sessions where other people can access them is indeed their fault. Come on. This is a personal responsibility issue and nothing else.
- cookiecaper 15y agoThere's more to it than just logging out. What if you don't want a subpoena to reflect your most visited profiles? There should be a way to purge any data kept longer than the routine access log cycle, including information on frequently viewed profiles.
- evgen 15y agoThe fact that someone can "stumble across" your logged profile is less of a concern for you than the fact that they might see your search history? Seriously?
- reso 15y agoThat's not a privacy issue, its a security issue. If you can't be bothered to log out your account on shared computers, people are going to get access to your account, and a malicious person will be able to do anything they please. Search type-aheads are the smallest of your problems.
- greendestiny 15y agoBeing able to uncover what profiles have been viewed is a significant problem for a lot of people. And they aren't worried about malicious users - they are worried about their partners/parents/children seeing which profiles they've viewed. Who looks at what profile is one of the most sensitive pieces of information facebook has, and I'm a little surprised that they do this.
- davedx 15y agoI'd be more worried about people accessing my Internet banking or my email than who I look at on Facebook. Log out of your bloody accounts before you leave your PC!
- greendestiny 15y agoJust to be clear - I don't think people are especially worried about strangers seeing which profiles they've viewed (it would be quite unlikely it would be meaningful) - they are worried about the people they trust seeing which profiles they've viewed. Facebook doesn't show which profiles you've viewed explicitly for a good reason - I think they were just hoping that this would be obfuscated enough not to get much notice.
- yuvipanda 15y agoI still don't understand why 'people they trust' would have access to their 'personal' facebook account.
- greendestiny 15y ago
- ryusage 15y agoIf you read his discussion of how it works, though, that's very much not what this is. What you're asking for doesn't even make sense, to be honest. It's not about who you search or view. It's all just a big guess at who you might be interested in. From what I've gathered, it tries to find probable relationships based on all of these factors: Comments, Likes, Tags, Events, Applications, Friends, and Work and Education data Note that those are both your own comments, etc, and those of the people it's trying to relate you to. Who knows exactly how it combines all those to come up with its guesses, but I'm quite positive it has fairly little to do with who you're actually viewing (though I'll admit, maybe that's a small factor in there, too).