every time they make a change, then a small slice of privacy disappears. this time, it's a big one: have a read here
http://facebookprivacyandsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/temporary-retraction-facebook-to-respond-to-subscribe-issues/
people have been seeing comments on their posts from people they don't know...let alone strangers being able to read them in the first place!
one comment from the article sums it up:
"I think in most cases it isn’t showing stuff that people can’t see, but they’d have to go to your profile and hunt out the information previously. Now, everything you do is plastered there scrolling past on all of your friends newsfeeds. I object to having no control over that – how hard would it be for them to give you the option of saying ‘no, I don’t want my comments and likes to appear in the ticker’. Instead, I am relying on every single one of my friends to be bothered to deselect this option for me, and I have to do the same for all my friends so as to not have to see them commenting on things that have absolutely nothing to do with me"
and to stop this happening, *every* *one* of your friends has to go through a sequence of clicks to correct this problem, which is caused by your friends' interactions with you being displayed in *their* 'ticker' for their friends to see and comment on...get it?
furthermore, everything you have ever done on facebook will soon be displayed in a 'Timeline' and you can't disable it: but you will have time to tidy up your old posts that you don't want displayed. and how many people are going to do that? many people can't even figure out the privacy options
and as for the privacy options: they've been grossly simplfied and are very opaque, even for a geek like me
add to that the loss of clear, simple controls of the now very busy, overly dense newsfeed, and i think it's a disaster. facebook now decides which posts are a priority and my guess is that they will skew it towards advertising, which is where they make their money
i might be able to figure this out but when my privacy depends on other people doing the same, it's as good as non-existent. they're sheperding people into a walled garden where anything of value will be extracted from you and used for their purposes
so i'm gone...
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