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I can not decide where I lay on this issue. On one hand I love the ability to interact with facebook through apps such as Tweekdeck (which I can only assume us
by woodsier 17y ago
I can not decide where I lay on this issue.
On one hand I love the ability to interact with facebook through apps such as Tweekdeck (which I can only assume uses this API?).
However, this API can be abused by sites to publish 'closed' information. If I create a strictly private profile so that all my status updates are displayed only to my confidants, I have an expectation of privacy. Say Bob is friends with me, however uses this API to publish all my assumedly private status updates to the world on his website www.watch-woodsiers-status-updates.com, without my knowing. Is that right?
- peter123 17y agoThe thing is, Bob doesn't need the API to publish all your private status to the whole world... he could already do it in plenty other ways. Same thing with email... many of them (eg. gmail) come with RSS feeds.