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The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins
- dschobel 17y agoI just logged into facebook and while the option for "everyone" was there, the default was to preserve my old settings. What's the issue here?
- jsz0 17y agoSame here. Maybe Facebook was scared of Twitter at some point in the last 6-8 months but I don't see any incentive for them to risk a user revolt. They're doing fine -- Twitter is a different type of service. Who quits Facebook to use Twitter exclusively? I'm guessing almost no one. They compliment each other nicely.
- Joeboy 17y agofwiw, for me it defaulted almost everything to "everyone", which was a bit alarming. Don't know why we'd have had different experiences. Maybe they panicked and changed it?
- shrikant 17y agoThe vast majority of users will ignore this information the same way 80% of them have ignored privacy settings in the first place. But Facebook will still be able to claim that it did its best to get their informed consent. When I went over to FB, it threw a huge overlay window at me (that I couldn't really close with the Esc key or an obviously large Close button) that walked me through the new, more easily configurable privacy settings, all of which hadn't changed from my previous choices of "Friends Only". I really fail to see what the sinister bluster is all about. What more does TC want Facebook to do?