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We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook. We use FB to verify identity and help make it easie

We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook. We use FB to verify identity and help make it easier for you to invite friends and family, the people with whom you're already sharing your health info. Everything stays private within Prime.

jtheory 13y ago
This may be fairly reasonable to explain to someone with technical experience, but I imagine even among technical people you'll find serious resistance in slightly older generations. I'm pushing 40, and my life is focused around the net, but I still have a Facebook account partly only because my wife canceled hers (too much of a time sink...), and I check it maybe once a month, with a browser profile I use only for Facebook. Eh, it's not a disastrous problem -- this seems like it would be something you can change without any serious reworking of your central offering. You could also have a one-time, optional Facebook connection where the patient could authorize you to grab their contacts, and then have no further contact with FB.
rpedela 13y ago
Yeah, but many people, especially in the developer community, have a knee-jerk reaction to sharing private data on FB even if that isn't what you are doing. You could easily alleviate the fear by supporting other OAuth providers and allowing people to use their email address to sign up. I really like the concept BTW!
- thetylerhayes 13y ago
  Email is something we're currently considering. Thanks!
  - angersock 13y ago
    Don't just consider it--given this summer's events and disclosures, email is the only thing even remotely reasonable. EDIT: Seriously, I appreciate the desire to get your viral coefficients up and everything, but this is something that is actually important and can ruin people's lives; don't take it lightly.
mikestew 13y ago
You can post all disclaimers you want, and for the moment I'll assume what you say is true, but it won't make me use FB to log in. Despite all of those disclaimers, the login mechanism to which you've tied your app has proven multiple times to be untrustworthy. In other words, personally speaking, it's not you that I don't trust, it's FB. I'd go out on a limb to say that's probably what the grandparent poster meant, too. I know, I know, blah, blah, blah, but I don't want to do the mental exercise of walking through the scenarios. "Okay, Prime has convinced me it's trustworthy, but how could FB hose me? Well, they could...". It's easier to just not use the app. And I want to use the app.
einehexe 13y ago
I am sure you would prefer to have all their FB data but you will lose a lot of potential customers if you demand they use FB.
r00fus 13y ago
Can't you get the same benefits by using, say Twitter, as an identity verification?
- thetylerhayes 13y ago
  Twitter doesn't provide email and Facebook has a firm real name policy. Twitter does provide benefits but Facebook is better for identity verification.

jtheory 13y ago

This may be fairly reasonable to explain to someone with technical experience, but I imagine even among technical people you'll find serious resistance in slightly older generations. I'm pushing 40, and my life is focused around the net, but I still have a Facebook account partly only because my wife canceled hers (too much of a time sink...), and I check it maybe once a month, with a browser profile I use only for Facebook. Eh, it's not a disastrous problem -- this seems like it would be something you can change without any serious reworking of your central offering. You could also have a one-time, optional Facebook connection where the patient could authorize you to grab their contacts, and then have no further contact with FB.

rpedela 13y ago

Yeah, but many people, especially in the developer community, have a knee-jerk reaction to sharing private data on FB even if that isn't what you are doing. You could easily alleviate the fear by supporting other OAuth providers and allowing people to use their email address to sign up. I really like the concept BTW!

thetylerhayes 13y ago
Email is something we're currently considering. Thanks!
- angersock 13y ago
  Don't just consider it--given this summer's events and disclosures, email is the only thing even remotely reasonable. EDIT: Seriously, I appreciate the desire to get your viral coefficients up and everything, but this is something that is actually important and can ruin people's lives; don't take it lightly.

mikestew 13y ago

You can post all disclaimers you want, and for the moment I'll assume what you say is true, but it won't make me use FB to log in. Despite all of those disclaimers, the login mechanism to which you've tied your app has proven multiple times to be untrustworthy. In other words, personally speaking, it's not you that I don't trust, it's FB. I'd go out on a limb to say that's probably what the grandparent poster meant, too. I know, I know, blah, blah, blah, but I don't want to do the mental exercise of walking through the scenarios. "Okay, Prime has convinced me it's trustworthy, but how could FB hose me? Well, they could...". It's easier to just not use the app. And I want to use the app.

einehexe 13y ago

I am sure you would prefer to have all their FB data but you will lose a lot of potential customers if you demand they use FB.

r00fus 13y ago

Can't you get the same benefits by using, say Twitter, as an identity verification?

thetylerhayes 13y ago
Twitter doesn't provide email and Facebook has a firm real name policy. Twitter does provide benefits but Facebook is better for identity verification.