Facebook and information
Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 7:56 am
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As I recall, the directions for shutting this off weren't exactly correct, but close enough that I was able to figure it out.Posted to my Facebook about a week ago wrote: Check it out: "FACEBOOKERS: Facebook is at it again....violating your personal information. As of today, there is a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Allow." Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites and un...check "Allow". Please copy and paste if you value what little is left of your privacy!
Here's some quotes directly from facebook:fbmf wrote:As I recall, the directions for shutting this off weren't exactly correct, but close enough that I was able to figure it out.
Game On,
fbmf
So, what's public Facebook information, you ask?If you opt out, your public Facebook information can still be shared by your friends to these partner sites unless you block the application.
Fun fact, they recently converted pretty much everything into Pages. Was that an underhanded way to make more of people's information public?Publicly available information includes your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, friend list, and Pages. This information makes it easier for friends, family, and other people you know to connect with you.
The bottom line is that you really shouldn't have any information on facebook that you don't want to share with the entire internet.You can opt-out of instant personalization by disallowing it here. By clicking "No Thanks" on the Facebook notification on partner sites, partners will delete your data. To prevent your friends from sharing any of your information with an instant personalization partner, block the application: Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora, Yelp.
What Facebook does is basically take an existing feature which, since it has been implemented, has protected your data and suddenly turn off the protection, usually silently. They have done this repeatedly now and when confronted about it don't even pretend it was a mistake. Pretty much Facebook's stance is "this is our data, not your data. We only protected your data so we could bait you into entering it".NineInchNall wrote:Wait. Wait.
People are putting their information up on a site for the explicit purpose of sharing that information with other people, and then they are surprised when that information is not private?
Why would we call someone who properly reads others' posts a "Crissa"?Zinegata wrote:Can we coin a new term for the Den? Let's call people who never properly read other people's posts a Crissa.
Because a lot of that has been happening lately and "Crissa" is a more concise term than"Someone who never properly reads other people's posts."
Very funny.CatharzGodfoot wrote:Why would we call someone who properly reads others' posts a "Crissa"?Zinegata wrote:Can we coin a new term for the Den? Let's call people who never properly read other people's posts a Crissa.
Because a lot of that has been happening lately and "Crissa" is a more concise term than"Someone who never properly reads other people's posts."
Yeah. But Crissa does it a lot. You don't have much experience with her, do you?Judging__Eagle wrote:Uh...
I'd say that there are other people who have both repeatedly, and consistently, misread, misunderstood, and then argued stridently on the 'facts' that they 'read' in a post.
Maybe we should change the definition to someone who shoots themselves in the foot with their own link?angelfromanotherpin wrote:Um, your own link says 'This theory is the source of the name, which stems from the Greek word for uterus, hystera (ὑστέρα).'Crissa wrote:No, it's not founded in the greek for uterus. It's founded in the English for 'woman who doth protest too much'.
That's why you should probably not claim things aren't sexist without asking why. Just because you get along just fine being a second-class citizen without ever wondering why, does not mean it doesn't bother other people.
-Crissa