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If it is indeed verified I would be the first one to jump on the bandwaggon and delete the account and tell others to do so. But so far I have not seen anything
by huzur79 14y ago
If it is indeed verified I would be the first one to jump on the bandwaggon and delete the account and tell others to do so. But so far I have not seen anything to verify it and more reports on Facebook claims that it is indeed old user to user wall posts (something I remember and used in the past personally) just showing up from people now liking them which at the time they didn't have a like button.
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- huzur79 14y agoPost a screen shot, lets see it.
- jlgreco 14y agoYou want a screenshot of his private message?
- tedunangst 14y agoSurely, somewhere, somewhen, somebody sent a private message the contents of which are not particularly private. I know most of my private messages consist of "what are you doing Friday?"
- huzur79 14y agoWell its public now isn't it. Isn't that the problem. What harm would a screen shot do. Can black out anything that is sensitive.
- jlgreco 14y ago> Well its public now isn't it. That strikes me as a very 'Facebook-eque' attitude towards the privacy of others. I am sure that if he were comfortable posting a screenshot of it, he would have done so without needing prompting.
- tisme 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566617 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566617
- iyulaev 14y agoAlready deleted all of them, and don't have access to that e-mail account anymore (never updated from my old school acct).
- mnicole 14y agoRegardless of what the actual situation is, if these posts are being brought to people's attention by friends because they seem sensitive and are now more prominent than they once were, isn't that a concern in and of itself?
- jlgreco 14y agoGood point. Mass hysteria being used as a carrier for sudden bursts of clarity would be an interesting phenomenon in itself. Thousands of people suddenly realizing "Oh god, what have I been doing?" Edit: The more I read about this, the more it seems to me that this is what is going on. I think this has interesting implications for the "Privacy is dead" attitude. It suggests to me that, contrary to popular belief in some circles, people are not ok with their diminished privacy.. they just haven't been thinking about it.
- mnicole 14y agoI wouldn't put this on the users' lack of clarity as much as I would blame Facebook for changing the course of it's features so much so that this is now happening to people. People were using the site as it was once intended and we can't blame them for being infuriated when the logic behind that usage changes. To me it's no different than Quora deciding to make all of your posts public without the chance to opt-in, except because of Facebook's privacy settings mess, it isn't easily reversible without severely crippling the content you've posted over the entirety of your account's lifespan.
- jlgreco 14y agoFair point. In either event I think it is fair to say that this demonstrates that privacy is valuable to consumers, despite what certain people might have us believe.