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Post by akkartik »

Vivtek wrote: post #5

If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously. They're never going to shut off these eavesdropping things because that's the only online way they can grow the interconnectedness of their network - and the denser the network, the more value. To Facebook.

Telling somebody something on facebook is like talking to them at a party. I actually think it's cool that this sort of serendipity becomes possible. And I don't even like facebook anymore.

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Post by jackreichert »

Vivtek wrote: post #5

If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously. They're never going to shut off these eavesdropping things because that's the only online way they can grow the interconnectedness of their network - and the denser the network, the more value. To Facebook.

True, although you can install a plugin like csfire and block the off-site stalking.

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Post by CodeMage »

notahacker wrote: post #10
Vivtek wrote: post #5

If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously. They're never going to shut off these eavesdropping things because that's the only online way they can grow the interconnectedness of their network - and the denser the network, the more value. To Facebook.

The corollary to that argument is if you want to send someone a message without other people seeing it, writing on their "wall" probably isn't the best way of going about it. There are some pretty reasonable objections to Facebook revealing things unexpectedly: this isn't one of them. If you wish to control who reads a message you've left on a someone else's quasi-public wall then Facebook certainly isn't the service…

If you wish to control who reads a message you've left on a someone else's quasi-public wall then Facebook certainly isn't the service for you.

While I understand what you're trying to say and agree with that, I think that the issue people have is that Facebook is giving them a mechanism to exert that control and then that mechanism doesn't work.

Re: Facebook "PLEASE DO ME A FAVOR" request is rubbish, a good explanation why...

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Post by CodeMage »

akkartik wrote: post #11
Vivtek wrote: post #5

If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously. They're never going to shut off these eavesdropping things because that's the only online way they can grow the interconnectedness of their network - and the denser the network, the more value. To Facebook.

Telling somebody something on facebook is like talking to them at a party. I actually think it's cool that this sort of serendipity becomes possible. And I don't even like facebook anymore.

Except that most parties don't include live streaming to strangers. Nowadays it's a lot easier to have something you said or did exposed to the whole world.
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