The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
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The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
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Re: The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
#2Wonderful visualization.
Also worrying. With each new iteration, I try to go over my settings and make sure my profile remains as private as it was in '05, but there so many fucking changes and settings, I might just quit one of these days.
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#3That should be 'devolution'.
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#4The acceleration is what worries me... What's next: July 2010 - SkyNet
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#5Wonderful visualization. Also worrying. With each new iteration, I try to go over my settings and make sure my profile remains as private as it was in '05, but there so many fucking changes and settings, I might just quit one of these days.
You can deactivate your account when you sign off, then reactivate it whenever you want to do something with it. That way you are hopefully less vulnerable to their bugs and random privacy changes.
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#6Half the features on this graph didn't exist in 2005, for example: photos. There was basically no privacy initially, everyone at your school could see everything, which wasn't much.
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#7This is exactly the kind of visualization that we should have to manage the privacy settings.
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#8Wonderful visualization. Also worrying. With each new iteration, I try to go over my settings and make sure my profile remains as private as it was in '05, but there so many fucking changes and settings, I might just quit one of these days.
I wanted to write up a blog post on how to manage your privacy settings, but I couldn't figure out myself how to do it and that was what pushed me to finally deactivate the account.
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#9I fully expect wall posts to start opening up significantly this year. That is where most of the 'real time' information is and given their need to imitate twitter, it would not surprise me in the least if we start seeing less privacy here.
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#10I fully expect wall posts to start opening up significantly this year. That is where most of the 'real time' information is and given their need to imitate twitter, it would not surprise me in the least if we start seeing less privacy here.
If wall posts are forced open despite my current 'friends only' setting, I'm gone. It's the only thing I am still comfortable doing there. Might as well twitter otherwise, no ads there yet.