Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
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Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
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Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#2They were already linked.... but to a search field.... Now they are just linking to a fan page which pulls content from Wikipedia.
And it used to news feed them when you changed them anyway ("XX has changed their television interests" or something to that extent)
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#3Much as I love complaining about Facebook, the fact that they accurately derived the pages to be linked to means they already have this information. In fact I'm not even sure why they bother to ask.
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#4Much as I love complaining about Facebook, the fact that they accurately derived the pages to be linked to means they already have this information. In fact I'm not even sure why they bother to ask.
They are asking because auto opt-in drew the ire of legislators, now they have the "we asked!" defense. Of course as this and other (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_high_pressure...) articles point out, the opt-in is both unclear and a bit forceful.
Also FB has had backlash before over making things public so they are trying to nip that in the bud beforehand by allowing the vocal minority who understands/pays attention to this stuff to opt-out while the masses just click the "Accept All" button.
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#5With this move, Facebook is turning many of your before-private profile fields into now-public "Page" connections. Any most users don't realize by clicking that blue button they are making everything public.
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#6They were already linked.... but to a search field.... Now they are just linking to a fan page which pulls content from Wikipedia. And it used to news feed them when you changed them anyway ("XX has changed their television interests" or something to that extent)
They were not automatically public before, that is a much bigger deal than the change from search to page.
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#7kill-region?
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#8They were already linked.... but to a search field.... Now they are just linking to a fan page which pulls content from Wikipedia. And it used to news feed them when you changed them anyway ("XX has changed their television interests" or something to that extent)
They were not automatically public before, that is a much bigger deal than the change from search to page.
AFAIK^^ interests on new profiles are set as "Friends Only" by defaults and that was one of the defaults on the previous privacy rollout for pre-existing users after the cry out.
All this does is change how the interests actually link (They used to be linked to a search field seeing who else had that text, Now they link to pre-formatted fan pages which still show who else like it but with descriptions from Wikipedia.)
^^Will need to check on my Alt FB account.
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#9Is that really so much of an issue?
I'd rather keep using Facebook knowing that they index 5-10 pages I clicked 'like' on than just stop using it.
Re: Facebook is Getting Orwellian. I Vote Ctrl-W.
#10Much as I love complaining about Facebook, the fact that they accurately derived the pages to be linked to means they already have this information. In fact I'm not even sure why they bother to ask.
They are asking because auto opt-in drew the ire of legislators, now they have the "we asked!" defense. Of course as this and other ( http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_high_pressure... ) articles point out, the opt-in is both unclear and a bit forceful. Also FB has had backlash before over making things public so they are trying to nip that in the bud beforehand by allowing the vocal minority who underst…
Except if you say No, they delete all your profile information. It's either links to Pages or nothing.