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Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by andreasvc »

johnchristopher wrote: post #76
saraid216 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. I viewed this on a browser where I'm not logged into Facebook.

Well I think I am totally missing the point then. The page doesn't display any info/statuses related to my fb profile or any of my fb friends. From my point of view it is just displaying random fb results obtained by keyword related searches performed against the fb public data accessible via fb API. As far as I am concerned and aware of nothing in my profile is public.

It's simply displaying public data that has been scraped before-hand (so nothing to do with your own profile). It abuses the fact the people's profiles are public by default, something that people are probably not aware of.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by andreasvc »

Henwys wrote: post #41

I find it odd that people are surprised by things like this. The information is very public.

Maybe because they never consciously chose to make it public; that's simply facebook's default and IMO it's counter-intuitive that social interactions are made public.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by TeMPOraL »

confluence wrote: post #19

A 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…

In principle it has always been so - whatever you do leaves an permanent imprint in people and things around you. It's just that the Internet is a new, much more efficient way to navigate and explore the Great Web of Causality. So what was true just in principle, now became true in practice.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by fromhet »

andreasvc wrote: post #77
confluence wrote: post #19

A 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…

I believe that when people say that everything on the internet is in the public domain they imply that even private data is subject to hackers and such. And if someone got root of Zuckerbergs cellar server (or, wait, somethig) they would be able to do what they wished with our data.

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by yread »

georgemcbay wrote: post #3

I'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

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by kmfrk »

lukevdp wrote: post #16

I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics

People said stupid things in public before social media. :)

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by Deestan »

gurraman wrote: post #60

Another interesting column: "Who's out of town?". I wonder how burglers use social networking.

> I wonder how burglers use social networking.

Allegedly, they do pay attention to tweets from people they can find the home address of.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8789538/Most-burg...

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by lukevdp »

paganel wrote: post #74
lukevdp wrote: post #16

I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics

> I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. It's a free world. People should be allowed to say whatever they want on whatever medium they want (as long as it's not hate-speech etc.)

I'm not saying they legally shouldn't be allowed to (I doubt you will find anybody here that thinks that). I'm just saying it's a stupid thing to do

Re: We know what you're doing

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Post by lukevdp »

megablast wrote: post #54
lukevdp wrote: post #16

I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics

Most bosses do not have the time, wherewithal or care enough to do this. There is nothing wrong with people blowing of steam.

>>Most bosses do not have the time, wherewithal or care enough to do this.

Agreed.

>>There is nothing wrong with people blowing of steam.

And each to their own, but it's easy to make a post private instead of public, and doing so seems much more prudent to me.

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