techi.com — After a slew of loud criticism, Facebook have rolled out new, more understandable privacy controls. Change your settings to ?friends of friends? and it will apply to all your interactions with Facebook. Aapplications and external websites will now have to ask permission for access to any sort of private data.The only problem? It won?t matter.
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sq2shooterMay 29, 2010
Except I supplied them with a name already. They have no idea it isn't real. There is a ton of email with my name on it in my GMail account. And like when I signed up for GMail, All of it is written to a name that is not really mine but one I use online. The same name they have for me for Google Voive, Wave, all of them.
cl1mh4224rdMay 29, 2010
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jqp123May 29, 2010
If you prefer to believe that your info is currency, I'm sure that's fine with Facebook. In fact, they probably prefer it this way ... believe what you want just as long as you keep providing the personal info that they can convert into real world currency by selling it.
sq2shooterMay 29, 2010
Exactly my point. Zuck has incompetently agreed to changes that are slowly destroying the image of his company and alienating a number of its users. All the news you see about Facebook is negative now and all in response to management decisions within the company. It is management ineptness personified. The number one threat to Facebook is now the absolute stupid decisions being brought down by upper management. I really wonder if they will end up being the AOL of the 2000's. They are going to manage this company into obscurity and set up the stage for a competitor who actually knows how to run a business to move in and steal their thunder.
mrmudgeonMay 30, 2010
I agree with this article complete. I post on Facebook, but infrequently and cautiously. I value my privacy.
dtmike07May 30, 2010
I think users of facebook are at least partially responsible here. We have become used to paying nothing for the services websites provide. We refuse to pay even one cent. We expect to get those services, and the website gets nothing from us, except for the possibility we will click on ads. We are annoyed by the irrelevant ads and don't click on them. And we become pissed about relevant ads because they violate privacy. So what gives? The bottom line is that the problem is Facebook's business model. And that model arose because we selfishly expect to receive the service Facebook provides for NOTHING. Is Facebook being greedy and disrespectful of our privacy? Yeah probably. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, and we are greedy too for expecting one.
burylinkMay 31, 2010
Tons of companies will do this for short term gains. Fact is he probably doesnt give a s**t since he knows the site will hit its max potential value soon and he needs to sell it soon
hotmail17Jun 2, 2010
On the ride side of the page.