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> I guess, yes: if you aren't going to use Facebook for three years, maybe you should disable your account before you leave. What? Why would you have to disab

> I guess, yes: if you aren't going to use Facebook for three years, maybe you should disable your account before you leave. What? Why would you have to disable your account to not have facebook send out notifications on your behalf? > Regardless, you certainly have had many years now to understand and deactivate this feature How could you understand this "feature" (bug), if it only shows up in other people's streams?

saurik 14y ago
It is quite well and heavily documented in the settings panel of the Facebook, which is itself cross-linked from the privacy panel. Additionally, you will be seeing the behavior occur to your friends, but again: if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.
- nitrogen 14y ago
  if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you. This is a dangerous, anti-consumer notion. Nobody should have to go out of their way to preserve their privacy. I would reword your assertion like this: "If your users have to dig through settings and privacy sections to have some semblance of a normal existence, there is something wrong with your site." What next, people start selling your most personal information (travel habits, TV and movie viewing history, etc.) on the open market, then demand a $20/mo fee to be left alone?
- nathan_long 14y ago
  >> if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you. There are two separate issues here: 1) should Facebook have done this, and 2) should the user have stopped it sooner. You say the answer to #2 is "yes." Ok, fine. But the answer to #1 is definitely "No." I don't care if they've been doing it since the day they launched. They're spamming the user's friends, without the user's explicit action, in a way that makes it appear that the user did it personally. How can they possibly call that a "feature"? Imagine having Skype auto-dial your contacts, impersonate your voice, and pitch them on products. >> if you are still using Facebook but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you. There, I fixed that for you.

saurik 14y ago

It is quite well and heavily documented in the settings panel of the Facebook, which is itself cross-linked from the privacy panel. Additionally, you will be seeing the behavior occur to your friends, but again: if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.

nitrogen 14y ago
if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you. This is a dangerous, anti-consumer notion. Nobody should have to go out of their way to preserve their privacy. I would reword your assertion like this: "If your users have to dig through settings and privacy sections to have some semblance of a normal existence, there is something wrong with your site." What next, people start selling your most personal information (travel habits, TV and movie viewing history, etc.) on the open market, then demand a $20/mo fee to be left alone?
nathan_long 14y ago
>> if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you. There are two separate issues here: 1) should Facebook have done this, and 2) should the user have stopped it sooner. You say the answer to #2 is "yes." Ok, fine. But the answer to #1 is definitely "No." I don't care if they've been doing it since the day they launched. They're spamming the user's friends, without the user's explicit action, in a way that makes it appear that the user did it personally. How can they possibly call that a "feature"? Imagine having Skype auto-dial your contacts, impersonate your voice, and pitch them on products. >> if you are still using Facebook but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you. There, I fixed that for you.