The problem with that is your friends indirectly tell Facebook. Facebook can fill in the rest.
I'm curious, a lot of my information is snarky (location: Antarctica, religious views: Nihilist, etc) -- I wonder if they're able to realize that I'm obviously being intentionally inaccurate?
To put it another way, you don't have to talk to a person to 'know' them to varying degrees of certainty. You can gather bits of information and build your own image with out ever meeting.
I upvoted you even though I disagree heartily with what you are saying; and I would like to point people to pg's essay http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html to remind them that this site is not reddit, and that the downvote should be used rarely, and mostly to quell noise and abuse. That said, one should not have to give up using a cell-phone to avoid being tracked. Nor should ones willingness to use facebook to ta…
What you describe is not supposed to happen on Reddit either. But idiocy takes over whenever a group of people gets large enough.
if you have a core group which is caring about the health of the community then you might have not this problem. but if the community gets overuned by trolls the admin should take some steps to prevent it. (kick the trolls, close registration temporaly, etc.) (sorry, if my english is broken. i'm a german guy)
What you describe is not supposed to happen on Reddit either. But idiocy takes over whenever a group of people gets large enough.
if you have a core group which is caring about the health of the community then you might have not this problem. but if the community gets overuned by trolls the admin should take some steps to prevent it. (kick the trolls, close registration temporaly, etc.) (sorry, if my english is broken. i'm a german guy)
Hard to kick people for downvoting stuff, would have to be done manually and that doesn't seem feasible. Cheers from another German;)
Eh, disable location services for your facebook app. I assumed they already did this. And if you don't want facebook to know anything about you, you can still use facebook. Here's the secret: just don't tell facebook everything about yourself. It's not hard to do.
The problem with that is your friends indirectly tell Facebook. Facebook can fill in the rest.
This is only true if your private information is visible to your friends. I don't feel compelled to put anything in facebook at all except the stuff I'd normally put in a public-viewable blog. My profile is 100% blank except for my profile picture, which is a monkey in a nice wool coat.
The only reason I actually use facebook at all is for party invites, if my friends could find a different way to wrangle party invitations I'd dump my account like it was myspace in 2007.