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I'm an engineer at facebook. I want to clear up a few things that you guys are talking about. For starters, it's true that a visit to a news story or watching
by patangay 15y ago
I'm an engineer at facebook. I want to clear up a few things that you guys are talking about.
For starters, it's true that a visit to a news story or watching a video will trigger a feed story. The point that most people seem to be missing is that this requires you to knowingly allow a social application. For example, in my case, I installed the social plugin for rdio (rdio.com). When I listen to a song on rdio, it publishes it to my friends ticker feeds. (Ticker is the bar on the side where likes, listens, reads, etc go). There are a couple websites that are doing read social browsing, for example the Washington Post's social reader (https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader/ https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader/). Again, just by visiting this page you will not trigger anything unless you have already allowed the application access.
In the past I've setup my music player on the laptop to publish the songs I'd been listening to, to my IM client (as away messages) - Adium let's me do this out of the box. It's kind of the same idea, instead this is just built in to the website you visit or music you listen to.
You can also disable any application you previously installed by going to Privacy Settings and clicking on Apps and Websites. It should all be there. You don't have to log out of facebook or close your account. Just delete all your social apps. (https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy)
- gmantastic 15y agoThat's very helpful, thanks.
- paulsmith 15y agoIs it retroactive to apps that you've installed previously? For example, I signed in with my Facebook account on 3rd party site X and accepted the permissions, and at the time it didn't auto-publish to my feed (or "ticker" or whatever), but now suddenly it will be publishing automatically without my explicit say-so?
- X-Istence 15y agoAccording to some the app will have to ask for those new permissions before it will be allowed to do them, for now.
- ptarjan 15y agoNo. It is a brand new permission that must be granted. You will know since the dialog will be centered around "Add to Timeline" instead of "Authorize this app".
- rsl7 15y agoI'm sure you're still storing all of that data, whether we opt-in or not. Because why throw away such valuable data? And that means it will be made public some day, by accident or by design.
- BrandonM 15y agoHow narcissistic must we be these days to think that our friends actually care about every little thing we do? It has apparently reached the point that we just want to share everything we're doing without applying any kind of personal filter to the stream of data we are sending out. This is silly. We're going to be swimming in a tide of noise and get sick of this whole social thing if someone doesn't slow down and consider what it is that we actually care to know about our friends.
- 3pt14159 15y agoSo let me get this straight, only white listed websites (not apps, websites) will have content shared from them? If that is the case this whole thing is overblown. We were all thinking that BuddyApp would be able to publish your generalized browsing. Which is terrifying for a whole host of reasons.