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It was a huge shock when I realized what Facebook was doing when they prompted me to update my privacy settings. Before, most of my profile was private. In the
by cmelbye 17y ago
It was a huge shock when I realized what Facebook was doing when they prompted me to update my privacy settings. Before, most of my profile was private. In the new privacy wizard, though, they had automatically selected for my posts (e.g. status updates, links) to be visible for everyone. Is this their plan for beings "more like Twitter"? Tricking people into making their posts visible to the world? I was about to just click "Next" without changing the settings (as I assumed they would keep them the same), but I'm glad I read closer.
- colinplamondon 17y agoThe thing that annoyed me was that I knew it was coming, I knew they were trying to trick me into making all my stuff public, and their little wizard still turned on a bunch of my photo albums to public. I had to spend five minutes combing through their privacy tools to fix all the things their privacy wizard got wrong. My preferences aren't that hard- keep everything private to everyone but friends of friends, period, full stop.
- potatolicious 17y agoThanks for the reminder - I just went through and fixed all the fuckups the wizard made. That serves me for trusting Facebook to do something right.
- cmelbye 17y agoYeah, I had to go through my mother's account and fix that. She keeps almost everything as private as it can be (Friends only for most things), but the wizard changed her settings to completely the opposite of what she wanted. I'm wondering how feasible it is for technically illiterate people to go through and fix their privacy settings or know what the wizard is doing to their settings.
- djb_hackernews 17y agoTo be fair, if you ignored the wizard then your privacy settings went unchanged.
- horseass 17y agoNever trust 'wizard' characters who offer help on computers. They're a species of tricksters that either purposely mislead you, like microsoft's internet connection wizard, or, when they have more experience points, cast evil spells like this one on facebook.