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I don't think its overstating the situation to say: Facebook changes profiles without permission or notification.
I only wish that when Facebook gave away my email when I connected with other sites that they gave away the Facebook email address. As it is, I almost never give permission to sites because most require an email address. I do not wish to share my real email address just to read an article that has shown up on my newsfeed, but would gladly share my @facebook.com email address
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There is no fine line here. Facebook changed a personal attribute of their users. This particular action is not justifiable under any circumstances I can see.
They're ethically obligated to hide infomation users don't want released, but are they really expected to publish everything their users ask to make public? It's annoying, but it doesn't spur anything like the moral outrage I would feel if they publicized your hidden addresses. At worst its a minor inconvenience.
People will sit back, be quiet, and move along and Facebook will progressively march forward with the invasion and the general populace will scream about it until it's too late.
This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.
What has Google "forced upon users" with Google+? Especially given that you can still remove G+ from your large Google profile (for now at least)
The toolbar that is present across all services that is the G+ alert bar...
As well as the fact that by default all your use of all Google products would be captured. You have to opt out of all google tracking to turn that off.
While I wont call it being forced, it was an edict which you had plenty of time opting out from prior to it occurring...
There are three discussions about this on the front page :-/ . I think this is just might be one of those things which would ticks us off as techies... but techies are the minority audience for sites like facebook. Do emails sent to the facebook id go to the standard facebook 'message system'? If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to logi…
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One thing that I still find highly annoying is the auto Youtube login.
What's an "auto Youtube login"?
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Doesn't seem like you're looking too hard -- you know, still having a facebook account and all. If you hate it that much, delete the account :P
Well, yeah. I'm mostly just jabbing at them in frustration at how much other people buy into centering their lives around FB... but I'm not a total luddite. :) Every once-in-a-while, someone from high school wants to get in touch with me and FB is a decent enough honey pot. That said, I am enough of a luddite to not see the need to have a Twitter account.