3 ms·

There is no fine line here. Facebook changed a personal attribute of their users. This particular action is not justifiable under any circumstances I can see.

• praxulus 14y ago
  They're ethically obligated to hide infomation users don't want released, but are they really expected to publish everything their users ask to make public? It's annoying, but it doesn't spur anything like the moral outrage I would feel if they publicized your hidden addresses. At worst its a minor inconvenience.
  • swasheck 14y ago
    It's less about convenience and more about assuming the ability to modify a primary attribute of one's online identity without advance notice. People will sit back, be quiet, and move along and Facebook will progressively march forward with the invasion and the general populace will scream about it until it's too late.
  • rhizome 14y ago
    Are you really flying the flag of Facebook's ethical obligations toward the benefit of their users?
• notatoad 14y ago
  The only justification i can see is that it's facebook, and this is pretty much the sort of behaviour i expect from facebook. i have a hard time getting outraged over behaviour that is totally in character.
  • rhizome 14y ago
    Just wait until Zuck starts getting hired by the White House.
  • ionfish 14y ago
    Explanations are not justifications.