PSA: Update your Facebook profile privacy settings TODAY!

[KeithTalent]

Taking into consideration the individual posting.. well, when the shoe fits. 😉

Birds of a feather, no?

Meh, I don't think I'm that much of an attention whore and I'm definitely not a troll.

KT

 

[Saga]

Meh, I don't think I'm that much of an attention whore and I'm definitely not a troll.

KT

Opinionated but ever resistant to stand up to pressure, I'd say it's a fitting representation nonetheless. I'd disagree based purely on your approach here.

Opinions are opinions, after all.

 

[Fenixgoon]

also be sure to turn off the instant personalization crap

account -> privacy settings -> applications and websites -> edit settings button next to "instant personalization pilot program" -> uncheck the box -> click 'confirm' on the popup.

my settings didn't change except for this one. what bullshit.


thanks for the PSA deeko! :thumbsup:

 

[KeithTalent]

Opinionated but ever resistant to stand up to pressure, I'd say it's a fitting representation nonetheless. I'd disagree based purely on your approach here.

Opinions are opinions, after all.

Well then I guess everyone that posts here is an attention whore, but I'm not the one that came into a thread that was intended to help users of a specific service just to make fun of them. That sounds like a troll. :hmm:

KT

 

[Saga]

Well then I guess everyone that posts here is an attention whore, but I'm not the one that came into a thread that was intended to help users of a specific service just to make fun of them. That sounds like a troll. :hmm:

KT

Relatively confident you misunderstand. I think the information is a great thing, I am close to many who would benefit from it in fact.

Regardless I am entitled to find social networks amusing and within full right to liken them to yet another notch in the many things that are killing real-life personalization.

I don't think ill of people who uses them. Misguided in many instances, perhaps.. but my disdain is far more towards the ones who use it at the expense of socialization skills and the ability to relate to others, which unfortunately in modern society is becoming a very big problem with our youth. There is nothing wrong with using facebook as a means to communicate; everything wrong with relying on it to fill the voids of eliminating inter-personalization ability..

I think you judge me harshly. Perhaps I come off as so, ergo I apologize if that is indeed the case as it was not my intention. Regardless I don't believe it will sway your opinion either way, but I've said my piece nonetheless. Perhaps in the future you will consider my words differently and not quite as critical. Perhaps.

 

[alfa147x]

Hasn't messed with mine yet, but thanks for the notice.

Yup same here

Thanks again

 

[KeithTalent]

Relatively confident you misunderstand. I think the information is a great thing, I am close to many who would benefit from it in fact.

Regardless I am entitled to find social networks amusing and within full right to liken them to yet another notch in the many things that are killing real-life personalization.

I don't think ill of people who uses them. Misguided in many instances, perhaps.. but my disdain is far more towards the ones who use it at the expense of socialization skills and the ability to relate to others, which unfortunately in modern society is becoming a very big problem with our youth. There is nothing wrong with using facebook as a means to communicate; everything wrong with relying on it to fill the voids of eliminating inter-personalization ability..

I think you judge me harshly. Perhaps I come off as so, ergo I apologize if that is indeed the case as it was not my intention. Regardless I don't believe it will sway your opinion either way, but I've said my piece nonetheless. Perhaps in the future you will consider my words differently and not quite as critical. Perhaps.

I completely agree with that part. Some people cling to it as some sort of sustaining force in their lives, but I do not think that is the case for most here, hence my comments. Of course I do not know most of the people here, so cannot say for sure.

I deleted my Facebook accounts for many of the reasons you mentioned. Facebook actually made me like some of my friends less and I did not like that.

KT

 

[Saga]

I completely agree with that part. Some people cling to it as some sort of sustaining force in their lives, but I do not think that is the case for most here, hence my comments. Of course I do not know most of the people here, so cannot say for sure.

I deleted my Facebook accounts for many of the reasons you mentioned. Facebook actually made me like some of my friends less and I did not like that.

KT

Precisely. I deleted both my myspace (back in the days of yore when people remembered what it was) and my facebook, but mostly for different reasons. While the ones I have laid in plain sight are some, more pressing was when a company I worked for was about to hire a regional sales manager, until they paid facebook (at the time it was $1,900, I do not know what it is now) to view all non-message specific personal information on the user. They were promptly e-mailed a 200 page PDF of status updates and picture tagging word key phrases which any idiot could use a "find" feature on and search for specific words or phrases. After viewing things such as "ditching work today to play golf, my work phone is forwarded to my cell as usual" in private updates not normally visible to anyone but specific people/groups/etc, among other things, they chose not to hire this man.

Allow me to re-iterate. My company paid facebook for private information and did not extend an offer letter based upon things they found in it.

I could go on and on to the umpteenth degree on what I've observed from college age kids and their ability to not relate, cope, or deal with the real world due to their social interactions becoming progressively more and more text based (and often void of repercussions due to anonymity, but that is another issue entirely).. but the reality is each and every person here on this forum is not ignorant of this reality, some simply choose to acknowledge it more than others.

Honestly, I fear for our future as a society as we become more and more de-sensitized to being forced to deal with things in the real world. Nothing more, nothing less. If I came off too harsh, and perhaps I did, then I can only hope it effected one person in a positive way. I won't be here much longer. This is a simple fact. At times I allow my frustration of the world around me and the people who take for granted their gift of a long lifespan to effect what I say and do. All I ask is that you don't judge me too harshly.

 

[sygyzy]

No matter what your privacy settings for this section were before, they are now PUBLIC by default. To change it back to private, press Account in the upper right, then Privacy Settings, then Friends, Tags, & Connections.

This does not exist as Deeko describes. In fact I am not even sure what page he is trying to refer to so I can correct him. There is no page called Friends, Tags, & Connections after Privacy Settings.

 

[Deeko]

This does not exist as Deeko describes. In fact I am not even sure what page he is trying to refer to so I can correct him. There is no page called Friends, Tags, & Connections after Privacy Settings.

You probably didn't get the update yet. I don't think that privacy option appears until the update happens. You'll know when it does - a popup comes up telling you to be a fan of a bunch of things.

already addressed.

 

[gaidensensei]

I dug around, I am not seeing it for mine. My ID number is in the 6 million.
I noticed in the past it happens with the newer ID numbers first, then the older ones eventually get changed.

I think they group certain user #'s by ascending, on separate servers. Then roll the update one server at a time.

 

[Aves]

Precisely. I deleted both my myspace (back in the days of yore when people remembered what it was) and my facebook, but mostly for different reasons. While the ones I have laid in plain sight are some, more pressing was when a company I worked for was about to hire a regional sales manager, until they paid facebook (at the time it was $1,900, I do not know what it is now) to view all non-message specific personal information on the user. They were promptly e-mailed a 200 page PDF of status updates and picture tagging word key phrases which any idiot could use a "find" feature on and search for specific words or phrases. After viewing things such as "ditching work today to play golf, my work phone is forwarded to my cell as usual" in private updates not normally visible to anyone but specific people/groups/etc, among other things, they chose not to hire this man.

Allow me to re-iterate. My company paid facebook for private information and did not extend an offer letter based upon things they found in it.

Exactly how was this done? I've never heard of anyone being able to just buy someone's personal Facebook information and I can't imagine them being able to keep it a secret. They'd be sued out of existence most likely.

 

[Saga]

Exactly how was this done? I've never heard of anyone being able to just buy someone's personal Facebook information and I can't imagine them being able to keep it a secret. They'd be sued out of existence most likely.

This I don't know. It's in adherence to their privacy policy. I don't use facebook; I'd suggest reading it.

 

[gaidensensei]

Exactly how was this done? I've never heard of anyone being able to just buy someone's personal Facebook information and I can't imagine them being able to keep it a secret. They'd be sued out of existence most likely.

Whoa, yeah that sounds kinda out of place. Sounds like something a PI would do or a friend related to that company who busted him.

Last I heard, google is adamant on retaining their user's information and will not release it unless by court of law, but this is as an overall perspective.

 

[Crusty]

Whoa, yeah that sounds kinda out of place. Sounds like something a PI would do or a friend related to that company who busted him.

Last I heard, google is adamant on retaining their user's information and will not release it unless by court of law, but this is as an overall perspective.

google != facebook?

 

[Brainonska511]

This I don't know. It's in adherence to their privacy policy. I don't use facebook; I'd suggest reading it.

I just looked through it; saw nothing in it that would allow them to do what you posted.

 

[Saga]

I just looked through it; saw nothing in it that would allow them to do what you posted.

I haven't worked for this company for about 4 years. If you'd like, I'd gladly provide you some private information, but please understand I signed a very fully-inclusive NDA when leaving so the extend of what I can say beyond that is limited.

Feel free to PM me.