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This is bogus, and a slight of hand meant to further erode privacy while giving Facebook an argument to fall back on other than "it's in our interest to post ev
by gfodor 15y ago
This is bogus, and a slight of hand meant to further erode privacy while giving Facebook an argument to fall back on other than "it's in our interest to post everything you do into our stream."
The bottom line is that what is actually going to happen here in the real world is that people are going to connect their Facebook account to these web sites, not realize or forget (yes, people forget these things) that this web site has been given the keys to the castle to post whatever it wants on their behalf, and a ton of shit is going to get posted to the internet that was beyond the intent of the user originally clicking buttons just to get past an annoying confirmation dialog.
That said, the people fighting against this are fighting a losing battle. Facebook is basically going to control the world unless someone comes in and tries to beat them at their own game and impose their own vision of how and when information like this should be shared.
- funkychickin 15y agoThere's always g+ from Google. So far they're staying true to the deliberate opt-in mindset instead of the facebook all-in then opt-out later mindset.
- watmough 15y agoYou forgot the final clause: " later followed by the removal of the choice to opt-out, for your convenience."
- natrius 15y agoWhat exactly has Facebook opted everyone into? You have to explicitly allow applications to post things to your wall.
- jarek 15y agoUm, let's see... they started with opting people's profile updates into the newsfeed back in 2006 and went from there.
- dorkitude 15y agoorijing (the engineer at Facebook) is right in that you do have to auth the app. It's not as though could be browsing one day in search of "abortions Chicago" or "genital warts" and have that auto-published to your FB page. You'd have to give an app explicit permission to share activities on your behalf.
- ltamake 15y agoBut I think the OP's point is that privacy will eventually fade away, so if I'm doing a Google search on "cure for HPV" this will be published publicly to my Facebook profile. I don't really care that "oh, it doesn't publish automatically unless you grant it permission!". I want to be notified when something is posted on my profile. On another note, I'm seriously considering closing my FB account once and for good and leaving for G+. I have a good crowd of friends willing to do this (and invite their friends), but G+ offers no way to import FB data, which would be a nice feature.
- orijing 15y agoI don't understand. You're afraid that your Google searches will be published to your Facebook stream, so you want to close your FB account and move to G+, because presumably Google is less likely to publish to your G+ profile than to your Facebook profile?
- muyuu 15y agoI'm with you there, which is why I've closed my FB profile long ago, and my G+ profile within the first day (as soon as it forced me to link Picasa). G+ makes as little sense for a private person as Facebook, if not even less.
- dorkitude 15y agoWouldn't it be easier just to continue using Facebook, but never grant any permissions to any apps?
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- brown9-2 15y agoOr one day Facebook could overstep and piss off it's common user permanently.