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Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing

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Re: Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing

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Am I the only one who sees double meaning in using a "dinosaur" to help remind people about "privacy"? Or maybe I'm just reading too far into it.

I wonder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_(mascot) (For a minute I thought it was a Firefox dinosaur, in which case the derivation would have been far more obvious.)

relevant> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla

Re: Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing

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post #11
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_(mascot) (For a minute I thought it was a Firefox dinosaur, in which case the derivation would have been far more obvious.)

relevant> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla

Uh, yeah, that's why it's called "Mozilla" with a "Zilla" and the end...

Re: Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing

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Facebook does not really care who you share your posts with. It does care that you stay on Facebook so that it can charge Coke and Nike and other big brands huge dollars to put their posts into your timeline. So, making you feel a little better about Facebook security could mean more money on their bottom line.

Also, over-sharing to too broad an audience pollutes the feeds of those users with likely irrelevant info, making the entire property less appealing to those users. I don't think this has anything to do with altruism.

Re: Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing

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Queue the report showing that users who review their privacy/sharing settings on Facebook end up sharing more, not less...

The article already addresses that concern:

> You might suspect this is actually a clumsy attempt on Facebook’s part to get people to change their settings from “friends” to “public.” But it isn’t, at least for now: A Facebook spokesman told me the only people seeing the pop-up box in the current test are those who are already posting publicly on Facebook. From Facebook’s perspective, then, this feature can only lead to one thing: Fewer people sharing publicly.

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