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Facebook changes its privacy page again
LIKE ADDING another ragged bandage to an already rotting wound, Facebook has once again revisited the subject of privacy and launched another page on its onerous site to help users understand how and when they are putting themselves into the range of its identity shredding, personal data sucking machine.
Yesterday when Zuckerberg took the video 'stand' to address a number of questions about privacy. he batted away real questions like a bee keeper beset by a swarming hive, sweating visibly. Yet, today we woke up to a new, newer, newish Facebook that wants to embrace its privacy commitments and lead its users by the hand through its privacy settings minefield.
This morning, in a blog post Simon Axten, a manager with Facebook's public policy team, called the new page a "living resource and a venue to facilitate an interactive discussion about privacy with all of you." Yeah, whatever Simon.
The page does what nearly every other website that acts as a guide to using Facebook has been doing for some time now, which is to actually tell people in a way that they can understand how to alter its default settings for sharing information. Something that the firm has either struggled with or just hasn't really tried to do before.
How clear are these less murky waters, though? Axten says it is a new page, launched today, yet posts on it date back to late May. "We'll regularly post updates on relevant new content, products and news stories related to online privacy," he added from his time machine. "Already you'll find a repository of online privacy resources both from Facebook and outside experts."
Sorry, too little, too late. We're not impressed, and we don't believe you'll protect our data. Thanks, but no thanks, Facebook. µ
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Chris, I think you are right! You are probably the perfect candidate for social networking and everyone else is just "too old".
Let me see, you're young, you don't own a house, you have no credit rating, you have no real meaningful job or profession, you have very little money, you have no family to protect, no wife, husband, or kids, and you think fart jokes are funny (well who doesn't?).
You're right! Social Networking is really only just for people like you, you know, kids with no real privacy issues and nothing to lose and no real Social Networking quest beyond trying to "hook up" and get laid!
Thanks for shedding light on this for us!
so now you're not allowed to you're fav TV, Films, Music, or Books unless you allow the corresponding page to link to your page and post on your wall.
I had Lost and Heroes in my TV list so now i have to allow their respective pages to link to my FB and post on my wall.
All of a sudden i have loads of posts on my wall from all the things i say i liked.
It's pathetic
The way I see it, Facebook did an about face and made previously private data public. That's worth complaining about. Plus they made it very complicated to figure out and change the privacy settings.
If I were them, I'd have a privacy matrix with rows for personal, family, friends, advertisers and everyone and columns for audiovideo, email, IM, photos and wall.
I'm an application developer. The whole privacy uproar started when Facebook launched its "Instant Personalization" campaign, giving sites like CNN and Pandora access to certain profile information. And that information is, at most, the same information that users have been freely giving without question to every developer who's slapped together a quiz or a game on the application platform.
I won't be really happy until Facebook gets really transparent about what information they share, with whom, and under what circumstances. I've put together a little script that I'd like to see them use as a sample to show people what information they share with partner sites. Until they do, I'll just try to provide a little "transparency" for them. To see what information Facebook actually shares with websites and applications you can visit http://www.wickedviral.com/facebookaccount/privacyaudit
If you don't want to share your information then don't the whole pupose of facebook is to share information if you don't want to share information then don't it's that simple if you go on to face boook and upload your date of birth, full address, mothers maiden name, pin number sort code and mobile number then you deserve to have your identity stolen. idiots
I agree with the previous comment. Stop complaining about facebook, if you don't trust it, don't use it. You're probably too old for social networking sites anyway, stick to the telephone and writing letters.
Ok, maybe i'm being thick here but why should privacy be a concern of Facebook? It's only as detailed as the data you provide.
If you dont like its privacy model *don't use Facebook*.