Facebook policy change leaves users with nowhere to hide

[B00Mer]

Facebook policy change leaves users with nowhere to hide

Facebook users who prefer to lurk in the shadows will not be terribly pleased to learn of a new change to Facebook’s privacy settings that is currently in the process of being rolled out. Facebook users until now have had the option to hide their accounts from the website’s search service. Enabling the setting would mean that their profiles would not be included in search results even when people search for them by name. This will no longer be the case once Facebook removes the privacy option in question, however. Facebook says that the new change will only impact a single-digit percentage of its user base, but we’re not sure how comforting that is. Considering Facebook is currently home to about 1.2 billion users, that means this change could impact more than 100 million people around the world.

source: Facebook policy change leaves users with nowhere to hide

 

[mentalfloss]

Is this really that big of a deal?

 

[DaSleeper]

Is this really that big of a deal?

Privacy is a big deal, otherwise, you and I and everybody else in this forum would be posting under their real name, and put their address and phone # in their profile ...non?

 

[CDNBear]

Privacy is a big deal, otherwise, you and I and everybody else in this forum would be posting under their real name, and put their address and phone # in their profile ...non?

Oui, but Loc posted it, so flossy had to knock it.

 

[Liberalman]

This is what happens in a public domain world

 

[DaSleeper]

Oui, but Loc posted it, so flossy had to knock it.

I hope your new phone isn't an android, because if it is, check the list of everything you agree to when you download an APP....all information that the app has access to seems to be shareable with all the other apps, and if you have downloaded facebook, all the info that your friends haven't had the wisdom or ability to hide from view, such as phone number and address get automatically written into your contact list which all the apps you download have access to.

 

[SLM]

Facebook policy change leaves users with nowhere to hide

Facebook users who prefer to lurk in the shadows will not be terribly pleased to learn of a new change to Facebook’s privacy settings that is currently in the process of being rolled out. Facebook users until now have had the option to hide their accounts from the website’s search service. Enabling the setting would mean that their profiles would not be included in search results even when people search for them by name. This will no longer be the case once Facebook removes the privacy option in question, however. Facebook says that the new change will only impact a single-digit percentage of its user base, but we’re not sure how comforting that is. Considering Facebook is currently home to about 1.2 billion users, that means this change could impact more than 100 million people around the world.

source: Facebook policy change leaves users with nowhere to hide

Facebook users who lurk in the shadows??? Makes it sound like they are doing something underhanded, as opposed to using it for what it was intended for which is to stay in touch with people they know, not broadcast to the world at large.

Privacy is a big deal, otherwise, you and I and everybody else in this forum would be posting under their real name, and put their address and phone # in their profile ...non?

It's not dissimilar from broadcasting on publicly accessible radio waves an individual's telephone conversation, in my opinion. Facebook is second to Google in their 'evilness', lol. They still don't hold a candle to lawyers and politicians, but they're up there.

Oui, but Loc posted it, so flossy had to knock it.

If by Loc you mean B00Mer then oui monsieur. Lol.

 

[CDNBear]

LOL, not enough caffeine in the circulatory system at that time.

 

[mentalfloss]

Sorry when I asked if this was really a big deal I meant for this specific policy and not privacy in general.

Are people really worried about having their name searched even if someone can't view their page?

 

[Dixie Cup]

While I do have a f/b account, I rarely go there so now I'd like to get rid of it. Not sure how tho'

 

[SLM]

While I do have a f/b account, I rarely go there so now I'd like to get rid of it. Not sure how tho'

I think once they own you, they own you for life. Or something like. It's in the small print I'm sure.

 

[Dixie Cup]

lol - you're probably right!

 

[Christianna]

I never used my real name on Facebook to start with, and no pictures either. I use a name my closest friends and family know but not just anybody would. I am not real fond of Facebook, however I do check out community affairs , the forestry service at times and the local buy and sell. for instance yesterday Shaw cable had a cable cut somewhere around 100 mile house it left a lot of us with no phone, no TV and the internet slow as cold molasses. I wouldn't have known that without looking at the community on Facebook.

 

[Sal]

Is this really that big of a deal?

apparently to some it will be

LOL, not enough caffeine in the circulatory system at that time.

lmao...I thought I had lost it...I had to go back to make sure boomer had posted it...

I think once they own you, they own you for life. Or something like. It's in the small print I'm sure.

lmao...you are bad...

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I looooooooooooooooooooooove reading FB. It is almost as good as people watching at an airport or mall. I check my crawl several times a day.

Plus I have met and connected with some really cool people all over the world.

 

[gerryh]

While I do have a f/b account, I rarely go there so now I'd like to get rid of it. Not sure how tho'

Sucks to be you.

I think once they own you, they own you for life. Or something like. It's in the small print I'm sure.

Wrong. Think again.

I never used my real name on Facebook to start with, and no pictures either. I use a name my closest friends and family know but not just anybody would. I am not real fond of Facebook, however I do check out community affairs , the forestry service at times and the local buy and sell. for instance yesterday Shaw cable had a cable cut somewhere around 100 mile house it left a lot of us with no phone, no TV and the internet slow as cold molasses. I wouldn't have known that without looking at the community on Facebook.

Paranoid much?

 

[Zipperfish]

Privacy is a big deal, otherwise, you and I and everybody else in this forum would be posting under their real name, and put their address and phone # in their profile ...non?

I think privacy should be a big deal. Don't think it is much these days though. I pretty much assume anything that happens on the internet, even "quasi-anonymous" sites like this one, I may as well spray paint it in the town square. There are doubtless several national governments collecting metadata on us, not to mention several transnational corporate entities like Facebook.

 

[coldstream]

I did join Facebook several years ago... and have never accessed my account.

Given its uses now, as Facebook has become a pure profit making venture.. not something of some altruistic social nature.. to glean preferential consumer information.. and by prospective employers to learn about personal lives.. and who knows what else.. i'm pretty sure i never will. I finally added their email account to my disallowed mail.. after i started getting twice weekly prompts to check out my page.

Forums are a lot more fun anyway.

 

[bill barilko]

F*c*b**k is for the truly dumb-I never go near the place.

 

[damngrumpy]

I have a facebook account with my real name never got into the profile crap though.
I use it to keep in touch with family mostly. I really don't care what is seen but then
I don't want certain people to find me not because I am hiding but because I no longer
want to be in teir world as it were. I never put down what movies I like and that sort
of nonsense either. If I dismantle it sooner or later people will stop trying to contact
a person that does not respond. Google is another group that is now just a bunch of
crap. We should have know as well that sooner or later the instrument of good would
be corrupted for all the wrong reasons so why are we so surprised

 

[Sal]

We should have know as well that sooner or later the instrument of good would
be corrupted for all the wrong reasons so why are we so surprised

we're not surprised, just disappointed is all...the net was a cool place to be for a good few years until advertisers caught the concept...but then they only put money into places that see return so really we control that don't we?

consumerism runs the universe