On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:31:55 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:44:37 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> 
>>>> Man, first Google now Wikipedia. I'm just waiting to log into
>>>> Facebook and find that it's now green instead of blue...
>>> 
>>> Facebook likes to change it upside down every three months. I hate
>>> that.
>> 
>> Actually, with FB it's more like they change the default privacy
>> options for all users to expose more data every three months.  It's not
>> rocket science to set things up so when they change things, the default
>> is "secure" rather than "open", would be nice if they actually learned
>> that lesson.
> 
> It's not like they don't know how to make it secure; probably they are
> *intentionally* opening those privacy holes.

The EU is having a bit of a field day with it, it looks like, so 
hopefully some good will come from that.

> The recent addition of community pages and making public what pages you
> have "liked" is to let advertisers know what you like.

Yeah, that whole page thing is driving me a little nuts right now - every 
time I login it asks me if I want to become a "fan" of pages related to 
movies, books, etc that I've said I like in my profile.

What's more, everything is selected by default, and there's no "deselect 
all" option.

So if I want to continue to maintain my privacy on that stuff, I have to 
manually deselect each one of what looks to be about a hundred "we think 
you'll be interested in this" options.

Quite annoying.  Still, if I hadn't wanted to share that information, I 
could've not included it.

Jim

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