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 Fix Facebook Privacy Problems in 2 MinutesPosted on May 13, 2010
Facebook has become something of a privacy nightmare (but then what did we expect when we turned over the social sphere to a private company?). Grumbles aside, here are some quick changes that can keep Grandma in photos without sharing your sexts and pokes with the world. Advertisement Previous item: Mexico Builds Border Wall to Keep Out U.S. Assholes Next item: Arizona Superintendent Gets Taken to School New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By Anarcissie, May 17, 2010 at 7:24 am Link to this comment
You all realize you don’t need Facebook to keep track of people, don’t you?
Report thisBy Barbara Yuki, May 16, 2010 at 3:29 pm Link to this comment
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Thanks for posting this video! It’s helpful; we’ll be linking to this for our own readers. I’m often amazed how many people are quite unconcerned about all their private info going out into the world via Facebook anyway; I’ve been guarding my info since the beginning and watching it, but that’s me. I hate to lose Facebook as a networking tool—I’ve kept so many friends through moves and changes—but not at such expense. Here’s to hoping they get their acts together!
Report thisBy Anarcissie, May 15, 2010 at 6:01 am Link to this comment
Can someone explain what the deal is with Facebook? I don’t understand why people feel it is necessary to have a presence on this privately owned, heavily surveilled and trolled website. If you want web presence there are many other ways of achieving it.
I’ve been assuming that people did want intimate facts of their sex lives and financial affairs broadcast to the Net and sifted by advertisers and the government (and God knows who else), but given the complaints, it seems that people are simply acting against their own interests and desires. I could really use an explanation.
Report thisBy RickinSF, May 13, 2010 at 6:55 pm Link to this comment
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Actually this is helpful.
Report thisBut what I’d like to see is some explanation about why FB profiles are now “linked” to “pages,” rendering them, basically, blank.
By Smudge Martens, May 13, 2010 at 5:54 pm Link to this comment
The author is an idiot!
This procedure configures basic privacy settings, it doesn’t fix a damn thing. Facebook has a history of and will continue to leak personal information for fun and profit and suffer from poorly written bug infected code.
The only way to fix Facebook privacy is to get the hell off of it and find a life in the blood-and-flesh world.
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