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Friday, May 14, 2010

Teh Internets Get Your Face and Book Back

Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM

As also mentioned in the Morning News, Facebook is again messing with your privacy settings. Huffington Post offers this handy-dandy guide to regaining your privacy settings (at least to where they used to be). Happy hiding.

UPDATE: An anonymous commenter (yes, sometimes their contributions are valuable) says this:

If you're concerned about privacy, and the fact that deleting your profile is next to impossible for users, I have a quicker solution: Change your profile photo to one of a penis, then have a friend report you. Facebook will do the rest of the privacy-wiping on your behalf.

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People who spend more than a couple of hours a week on Facebook really don't deserve privacy. I'm sorry but they don't. If privacy is so damn important to you, maybe putting every detail of your life on the internet really isn't a great idea?

So Facebook should blow out all the stops!! Make EVERYTHING PUBLIC!!!!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on May 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM

If you're concerned about privacy, and the fact that deleting your profile is next to impossible for users, I have a quicker solution: Change your profile photo to one of a penis, then have a friend report you. Facebook will do the rest of the privacy-wiping on your behalf.

Posted by If It's On The Internet, It Must Be True on May 14, 2010 at 10:15 AM

I just don't get all the privacy issues going on with people who use Facebook. It's up to you what you put up there. Are users treating it like it is email or something? Now if Facebook released all of your Private Messages that would an issue. But releasing your friends lists and comments and what movies you like. The only thing I can figure is that there is a bunch of people out there hooking up with their high school mate behind their spouses back.

Posted by Bill W.

on May 14, 2010 at 10:45 AM

Who doesn't know how to do this shit? Maybe your mom should get off Facebook.

Posted by Shelby on May 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM

If your parents and aunts and uncles and underage cousins are all on Facebook, how cool is it, really? DELETE PROFILE.

Posted by very bad homo on May 14, 2010 at 11:31 AM

Facebook was never cool.

Posted by Irena on May 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM

Here's the kind of privacy I expect. If someone were to login to their facebook account, who knows none of my friends, I expect that they'll be able to look at my name and profile picture if they search for me or my email. I don't want everything I do indexed into google, and I don't want friends of friends stalking me. I don't need to post every detail of my life there, but I have political beliefs and musical tastes I'd prefer future employers and random ad agencies trying to sell me "hot wet christian singles" not to be able to comb through all my history. If they did get communicated?

Not the end of the world, I'm not posting anything onto facebook I wouldn't say out loud in the middle of a mall. But I don't expect that I'm yelling into a crowded mall when I post something like "I can't wait for the *insert show here* on Friday!" I don't feel like that's too much to ask for, and I'm not expecting that facebook have some kind of "great firewall of facebook" so that I'll feel better in my tin foil room, or that they protect me from the random users who add you and you're dumb enough to accept their request. I have no idea why anyone is hyperventilating about this, these kinds of concerns have been with facebook since the beginning, and I find it hilarious that it's way faster to break the TOS than delete your account. When things get that bad, it's time to move on.

Posted by watchout5