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It's not a definition from the "PR" - it's the fundamental interpretation of privacy as a social construct. You being a very private person means your desire to

by blutoot 12y ago

It's not a definition from the "PR" - it's the fundamental interpretation of privacy as a social construct. You being a very private person means your desire to share your personally identifiable information (PII) with other human beings is very narrow. It has very little to do with the entity that facilitates that sharing (i.e. Facebook). Privacy concerns about Facebook is essentially concerns about how (some) Facebook employees will look at and use your data (including sharing it with third parties) without permission. Since I very much doubt Facebook (or any ad-supported Internet company for that matter) is letting that happen, I have always felt that privacy concerns with Facebook as a whole is kind of silly. What people usually express outrage against (including myself) is that Facebook facilitates easy inter-user consumption of information that often breach the basic notion of privacy for many users. One prime example of that is the opt-out of default public sharing of posts.

GrinningFool 12y ago
You did say that privacy concerns are essentially concerns about how [FB] will look at and use the data. Which is actually my point as well - privacy is much broader than which of my friend and followers will see what I post. It is even broader than which third party apps have what access to my account -- yet the article makes it seem like those things are the only privacy concern instead of just a subset of it. Agreed they won't share your information with third parties or use it themselves without permission - but they myriad of ways in which they ask for that permission, and in which you default to giving it means it serves only as the loosest constraint. By default users allow them to perform analytics that reveal a disturbing amount of information about them, among many other things. Similarly, I think the notion of privacy in which data you share is quite silly - if you're sharing stuff on the Internet, you should expect it to be public for all time. No matter who you're sharing it with or through. However, I would also expect the company I'm sharing through to act only as a middle-man, and not use my data for its own ends*. (That seems to be a different take on the silly angle that you have. )

by blutoot 12y ago

GrinningFool 12y ago

You did say that privacy concerns are essentially concerns about how [FB] will look at and use the data. Which is actually my point as well - privacy is much broader than which of my friend and followers will see what I post. It is even broader than which third party apps have what access to my account -- yet the article makes it seem like those things are the only privacy concern instead of just a subset of it. Agreed they won't share your information with third parties or use it themselves without permission - but they myriad of ways in which they ask for that permission, and in which you default to giving it means it serves only as the loosest constraint. By default users allow them to perform analytics that reveal a disturbing amount of information about them, among many other things. Similarly, I think the notion of privacy in which data you share is quite silly - if you're sharing stuff on the Internet, you should expect it to be public for all time. No matter who you're sharing it with or through. However, I would also expect the company I'm sharing through to act only as a middle-man, and not use my data for its own ends*. (That seems to be a different take on the silly angle that you have. )