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Re: We know what you're doing
#102A great example that should remind people that it's probably best to assume that everything they say or do online (offline as well) is now (and forevermore) public. Assume that anything you say or do has the ability to be seen by anyone and everyone around the globe instantly - without any methods of recourse. The genie is out of the bottle. Hence one should adapt one's own behaviour and act accordingly (that doesn't…
The other option is to arrange your life such that you don't have to care what other people think about your status messages.
Not necessarily easy for everyone, but much more satisfying in the long run.
Re: We know what you're doing
#103A great example that should remind people that it's probably best to assume that everything they say or do online (offline as well) is now (and forevermore) public. Assume that anything you say or do has the ability to be seen by anyone and everyone around the globe instantly - without any methods of recourse. The genie is out of the bottle. Hence one should adapt one's own behaviour and act accordingly (that doesn't…
It doesn't have to be that way; it's very easy to lock down your facebook settings to friends-only. I think it's quite ridiculous that that's not the default. This pessimistic assumption you mention where anyone can see everything might be the safest, but it's just not how humans work. When you're surrounded by a bunch of friends (or their status messages), you don't assume the rest of the world is overhearing you as…
As other readers have mentioned, your data is still owned by Facebook and subject to malicious intruders and the like. I just wanted to add that without any malicious intent, Facebook could intentionally or accidentally change your settings so certain information you had set to private is now public, without your consent and without any warning. Remember when Google exposed everyone's contacts through Google Buzz[1]? It's easy for someone to underestimate the difference between what you consider private data compared to what they do.
[1] www.businessinsider.com/warning-google-buzz-has-a-huge-privacy-flaw-2010-2
Re: We know what you're doing
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#105In case it's not immediately obvious (no visible sign, even on hover), clicking on the people's names will take you to their facebook profiles.
Hmm, looks like they removed this feature. It at least won't work for me (in neither chrome nor firefox).
It is fairly easy to get a link to the profiles however:
The urls to the profile-images look like this: "https://graph.facebook.com/[facebook profile id]/picture"
By replacing "graph" with "www" and removing "/picture" we get the url to the profile.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most web sites don't 404 when fed unrecognized get params.
While that's true, I would kind of expect Facebook to do better than most sites. Oh, well.
Facebook tries to do whatever maximizes engagement. Technical correctness only matters when it serves that primary goal.
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#107I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
OK, that was disconcerting to click.
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#109Needs an RSS feed for data mining purposes...
Re: We know what you're doing
#110I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
Searching for '743264506' reveals that it is actually quite an old trick. And the poor chap whose facebook profile number it is doesn't seem to be a geek so he probably didn't invent it
What?
It isn't anyone's profile number. It's a random number in a broken profile URL.