One small victory against Failbook

[stormy13]

and their overbearing (or more like lack of) privacy policies,

Nicole Lace wants to be the one in charge of how much the rest of the world knows about her life. She decides who gets to see her phone number. She decides who gets to see her email address. She decides who gets to see the name of her employer and where she went to high school when people access her profile on the popular social networking site Facebook.
And if one day she decides she no longer wants anyone to see anything at all, then she wants it to disappear forever.
"It is my choice to put it out there, so it should be my choice to completely erase it – not Facebook's," the 25-year-old program coordinator for a non-profit community group in Toronto said yesterday.
That choice is expected to become much clearer as Facebook Inc. has agreed to give its more than 200-million users around the world more power over the way it stores and shares personal information in response to harsh criticism from the Canadian privacy watchdog.

TheStar.com | Canada | Canada wins Facebook fight

I still won't be using it, but a bit of good news for those that do.

 

[Dwarf]

Fair point, but if you don't want people to know your personal information then you shouldn't post it. It's OK saying that Facebook are going to give users more rights over their personal information, but they cannot control what other users do with that information if someone gives them access to it (or part of it). What's to stop them from copying it, either as a text file on the computer or even as a hand-written note? In other words, if someone has had personal information on Facebook which others have been able to see and now decides that s/he no longer wishes this information to be public, it can be removed completely from Facebook, but s/he has no control whatsoever over how others store and use the data.

 

[DarkXeno]

and their overbearing (or more like lack of) privacy policies,

TheStar.com | Canada | Canada wins Facebook fight

I still won't be using it, but a bit of good news for those that do.

No matter what the data will still be out there somewhere, once on the net always on the net. Google archives are great to find things that people once thought we gone from the web.

 

[Tews]

+1 Dwarf... Your control over your information ends the moment it hits Facebooks' server... If you dont like whats done with it after that, then dont post it...

 

[Dwarf]

+1 Dwarf... Your control over your information ends the moment it hits Facebooks' server... If you dont like whats done with it after that, then dont post it...

Exactly. And the same thing applies to all of the other social-networking sites available. This is the very reason why I will not consider using them.

 

[zigzag3143]

Dwarf

Seconded. Guess im just anti social but the thought of giving away personal info doesn't interest me

 

[DarkXeno]

Dwarf

Seconded. Guess im just anti social but the thought of giving away personal info doesn't interest me

Just do what 70% of the real people out there do, create a page with false info and see who figures it out.

 

[holo88]

Just do what 70% of the real people out there do, create a page with false info and see who figures it out.

haha! I'm a 300lb Somalian dude on Match(dot)com. :shock:

But look at it this way. if the social garbage sites didnt exist, Chris Hansen would be unemployed.

 

[Crypto]

+1 Dwarf... Your control over your information ends the moment it hits Facebooks' server... If you dont like whats done with it after that, then dont post it...

I use it and I hardely post my pictures, Doesn't use Apps. except Barn Buddy which iv found really cool

I think facebook is not clear enough to most of the users, many use it too much and get their account deactivated or hacked. Social Networking is good but as you guys were saying, "Think before you Leap" .This is the age of the InterWebs.
(d)

 

[Dwarf]

Just do what 70% of the real people out there do, create a page with false info and see who figures it out.

Even so, be careful. Be very careful. Just one snippet of actual truthful personal information could spell trouble for you if that information falls into the wrong hands.

 

[Antman]

Not Steve is looking for a fairly large woman. Let us not deprive him of his happiness.

 

[holo88]

alas. the only matches i receive, are chesty, bobble-head, blondes.... and for some reason, other 300lb Somalian dudes. :shock:

i think i may have made an error when creating 'my' profile.... :roflmao:

i slay me

OT.
I agree with most all of what is posted here. the privacy of a given party, boils down to what, said party is willing to reveal. if they are negligent enough to put their entire life on a "wall", i believe the term is, then they are in fact at fault when pedo-van shows up at their door. the lack of understanding a privacy report, is no excuse to attack the site, when borderline ignorance is the culprit. hell. i've never once used my actual identity for any online service. MS actually calls me by Mr. McGriddlez, for g-d sake.

 

[Antman]

Sort of like a tattoo.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I'm utterly amazed that anyone uses these sites, they get what they deserve.

 

[stormy13]

the privacy of a given party, boils down to what, said party is willing to reveal.

Unfortunately that covers a good portion of those that use Facebook and sites like it. They are also the click-happy one's that keep people that clean computers for a living gainfully employed.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Unfortunately that covers a good portion of those that use Facebook and sites like it. They are also the click-happy one's that keep people that clean computers for a living gainfully employed.

Well said.

 

[MaDDN3ss]

Even if Facebook totally fixes privacy you will never be safe. One of your friends will surely post one of your mistakes to the world.

 

[holo88]

Ahahahaha! FAIL