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This is obviously very troubling for Facebook, considering that Sponsored Stories appear to be their main effort to monetize mobile. It's especially troubling

This is obviously very troubling for Facebook, considering that Sponsored Stories appear to be their main effort to monetize mobile. It's especially troubling because this is yet another breach of privacy on their part. People liking pages or apps don't expect to be spokespeople for these companies, so showing my name next to an advertisement is disingenuous. It's made even worse that this is opt-out, and my name is displayed on sites other than Facebook[1]. There is going to be hundreds of millions of people who will never even know that they're recommending products to people, and that's bad. 1. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/22/3110645/facebook-ads-on-zynga http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/22/3110645/facebook-ads-on-zy...

fleitz 14y ago
It's not troubling at all, this setting will be buried in the bowels of the privacy page. 1% of users will actually opt-out. "There is going to be hundreds of millions of people who will never even know that they're recommending products to people, and that's bad." Why? Exactly what is the moral outrage that when a person 'likes' Starbucks that that information is displayed to their friends? What did they think was going to happen?
- extension 14y ago
  Since they are not told, in any reasonably accessible way, what is going to happen when they click "like", they have grounds to complain about anything that does.
  - MichaelApproved 14y ago
    You have to assume anything you do is public and can be used in anyway possible, unless you've been told otherwise. Right or wrong, that's the nature of these things.
    - jfoutz 14y ago
      That's not entirely true. I don't think "You ass anything you do is pubic" is a valid MichaelApproved quote. Now, i don't know how you could misrepresent a like, but i don't think substantial misrepresentation (like my ridiculously juvenile example) is allowed.
    - extension 14y ago
      Whether it's right or wrong is exactly the issue under discussion.

fleitz 14y ago

It's not troubling at all, this setting will be buried in the bowels of the privacy page. 1% of users will actually opt-out. "There is going to be hundreds of millions of people who will never even know that they're recommending products to people, and that's bad." Why? Exactly what is the moral outrage that when a person 'likes' Starbucks that that information is displayed to their friends? What did they think was going to happen?

extension 14y ago
Since they are not told, in any reasonably accessible way, what is going to happen when they click "like", they have grounds to complain about anything that does.
- MichaelApproved 14y ago
  You have to assume anything you do is public and can be used in anyway possible, unless you've been told otherwise. Right or wrong, that's the nature of these things.
  - jfoutz 14y ago
    That's not entirely true. I don't think "You ass anything you do is pubic" is a valid MichaelApproved quote. Now, i don't know how you could misrepresent a like, but i don't think substantial misrepresentation (like my ridiculously juvenile example) is allowed.
  - extension 14y ago
    Whether it's right or wrong is exactly the issue under discussion.