Facebook, you’ve fooled me twice, shame on me
If you’ve logged in to Facebook since 9 December, you’ll have been introduced to the new Facebook privacy settings. As with Beacon, these new settings have outraged Facebook users and rights groups. Again, Facebook has relented, retracting the all (Google-wide) or nothing (not even your Facebook friends can see) visibility of friends lists.
The Facebook blog is a hotbed for complaints. As Peter ‘mos Undef’ Mann observed, since the new settings were rolled out, Facebook users have had to navigate six distinct versions of what aspects of our friends lists we can protect and how to set those restrictions.
Well Facebook, you fooled me once with Beacon, and now you’ve fooled me twice with your new privacy settings. Please don’t fool me again – make the profit you’re entitled to, just don’t invade my privacy or my friends’ privacy to do so.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:04 am
With all the money that was sent to buy FB you haveto imagine there is a lot of pressure to pay it back somehow. I suspect they will end up selling the info anyway to salvage some revenue.