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I think the general opinion of the parent poster is that if you are posting something that you wish to be private, then you shouldn't. The idea being that Faceb
by pyre 13y ago
I think the general opinion of the parent poster is that if you are posting something that you wish to be private, then you shouldn't. The idea being that Facebook now has access to it, as do their advertisers (possibly). That information can now be released publicly intentionally or unintentionally.
For example, the act of posting it, even to a subset of friends, is a risk. There's the possibility of a Facebook bug that sends that information public instead.
- fossuser 13y agoYeah that's what I was trying to suggest, and even if there is no bug people can share it outside of your protected group pretty easily.
- pyre 13y agoThis is less of an issue though. Presumably if your 'inner circle' knows that you are gay, then sharing LBGT links on Facebook isn't going to increase the likelihood that they will spill the beans to someone by a large margin.
- beatpanda 13y ago...which should be an indictment of Facebook's misunderstanding of how social identity works in the real world, not of its users.
- beatpanda 13y agoIt's also important to point out that Facebook is decidedly not neutral on this issue. They take information that used to be private and make it public all the time, because they think it should be, and every new product feature is built from that perspective. That is a bug.
- einhverfr 13y agoIt's a bug for us, a feature for them :-/