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I'm confused as to why that's a violation of privacy. Your friends can already see you Facebook profile picture and what posts you like, so how is this so diffe

by ihuman 13y ago

I'm confused as to why that's a violation of privacy. Your friends can already see you Facebook profile picture and what posts you like, so how is this so different? The only difference I see is the location the likes are being shown. Is there something I'm missing that makes it such a huge privacy problem?

yeukhon 13y ago
I am also not very clear about what the difference is between sponsored stories and a regular "yeukhon likes foobar page" on newsfeed. According to this https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100328087082670 https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100328087082670 they just make it more persistent so it appears on a different location and appears more regularly than a simple "Status check-in" which goes away. That's the impression I get. Doing so I can see a possible issue is endorsement. That is, I go to starbuck near Columbia and I don't need my friends to know that I was there a week later. Or I don't need Facebook to tell my friends that I like X group or X product two weeks after I have liked it. If I want to endorse my likes for real, and actually want people to hear about this great product or this great mission on FB, I would have just make a bunch of status update myself. But FB seems to think differently: let me take care of that for you. Instead of the user (me, I) doing all the selective publishing to tell my friends what a great product I think foobar is offering, FB will automate that process and put it in my friend's newsfeed and sidebar regularly when that product/group is on some ad campaign. In essence, I think FB is doing too much on behalf of the user since "endorsement" is a serious legal matter. Not entirely a bad thing. I have found some great stuff from these SS too, but I think for other people SS is not. I am not sure if this is the actual issue behind SS, but hopefully it is.

by ihuman 13y ago

yeukhon 13y ago

I am also not very clear about what the difference is between sponsored stories and a regular "yeukhon likes foobar page" on newsfeed. According to this https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100328087082670 https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100328087082670 they just make it more persistent so it appears on a different location and appears more regularly than a simple "Status check-in" which goes away. That's the impression I get. Doing so I can see a possible issue is endorsement. That is, I go to starbuck near Columbia and I don't need my friends to know that I was there a week later. Or I don't need Facebook to tell my friends that I like X group or X product two weeks after I have liked it. If I want to endorse my likes for real, and actually want people to hear about this great product or this great mission on FB, I would have just make a bunch of status update myself. But FB seems to think differently: let me take care of that for you. Instead of the user (me, I) doing all the selective publishing to tell my friends what a great product I think foobar is offering, FB will automate that process and put it in my friend's newsfeed and sidebar regularly when that product/group is on some ad campaign. In essence, I think FB is doing too much on behalf of the user since "endorsement" is a serious legal matter. Not entirely a bad thing. I have found some great stuff from these SS too, but I think for other people SS is not. I am not sure if this is the actual issue behind SS, but hopefully it is.