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by indigoviolet 16y ago
Re the second point: IMO, Facebook isn't a finished product. The product changes in ways that are hopefully useful to the majority of users over time. It isn't always possible [and it isn't simple, and it adds complexity, and bugs, and it d
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
It was an honest question, in the comment you responded to. You didn't actually include any suggestions, so I was curious. All I can say in response to your answers is that Facebook engineers and designers are some of the smartest people I
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
Yes, I believe so. That is a fair point, I'll give that feedback to the people concerned.
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
What would you suggest instead?
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
IMO, the benefits are from having your interests represented in a structured format. For example, you can now go to Pandora, and Pandora knows what music you like [and what music your friends like]. You can start actually building up an ide
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
Software evolves. No piece of software can afford to support every option and be backward compatible forever.
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
I don't understand how it is unethical at all. It is very clearly mentioned, in less than two lines of text, with detailed explanations one click away. What do you suggest instead?
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
Try the "Preview my Profile" link on http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=pe...
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
This is explained on your Profile settings page: "These settings only control the information people can see on your profile. This information, such as your Pages and list of friends, is still public, so it could appear elsewhere on the sit
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
You'd have seen something like the image on this link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_high_pressure...
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
What this article doesn't really clarify is that the author kept picking "Ask me later" in the dialog for the suggestions. It doesn't really make sense for Facebook to just keep letting you "snooze" that transition [keeping all data in two
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
No, Page connections are public. I don't think you can change that under Privacy settings -- you can not display them on your Profile if you so choose. The dialog took the conservative option of warning you that things were becoming public,
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
They were derived from the text you put on your Profile. Users were asked because it was the right thing to do, given that the algorithm would make some mistakes, and because converting the free text to Page connections meant that these wou
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
If you unchecked everything in the dialog, it warned you that everything would be deleted off your Profile. Did this not happen? The majority of interests you would've been linked to would not give you News Feed items (they're "voiceless" P
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
You can choose to not display your interests on your Profile. They are still "public", but hidden on your Profile.
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
Did you read the three sentences on the top of that dialog? The third one reads, "Remember, your Pages are public". There is a more detailed explanation linked off of the "Learn more" link. [I work for Facebook, but my opinions are my own].
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
I'll jump in and head off random speculation- this was from a survey that we used Decipher Inc. for, a long time ago. Looking into whether this should be removed.
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
Because open-source can only do some things. It took an Ubuntu to make Linux somewhat usable, and even then it is miles behind an OS X. Some endeavors can only be done when there is lots of money at stake, that's a reality of our world toda
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
I saw a guy buy a meat cleaver the other day. Is it possible he is a psycho killer?
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
How would you support the claim that most people won't understand what is going on? Edit: I guess the point I'm trying to make is that Facebook actually tests the UI and copy in experiments and in the lab before deploying it; so when you ma
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
It's opt-in.
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
I don't think it's fully rolled out yet.
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by indigoviolet 16y ago
I deleted my response to this by mistake. Here's what I'd posted, in essence: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=382978412130 Users can edit which connections they want to add to their profile. They can also hide some connections on t
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by indigoviolet 17y ago
of course they can, that's how the moral compass works.
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by indigoviolet 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor
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by indigoviolet 17y ago
Why should it matter that they're physically indistinguishable? Would it be more excusable then? Caste is just another uneducated, thoughtless distinction to discriminate against other people. Caste is as correlated with cultural identity a
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by indigoviolet 17y ago
To me, that's just splitting hairs. I don't consider religious discrimination to be any better than caste-based or skin-color-based discrimination. My point is that this is one more manifestation of an inherent feature of human behavior, to
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by indigoviolet 17y ago
I'm Indian, and I disagree with the caste system, but am also cynical enough to think this is no big deal. People will always discriminate against people for one reason or another. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=black+social+netw
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by indigoviolet 17y ago
yeah, I built from cvs specifically for those commands.

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