to panic about facebook?

[IceCreamy]

Perez Hilton has a lot to say about FB....

I will do link in a sec.

Todays news :

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7896309.stm?lss

Seems as if enough people are concerned for facebook to take notice!

whne you post a picture you can specify who can see it. only friends, friends of friends, everyone or specific people.

anyone who puts their phone number or address up is an idiot.

Yes, there was a banner on top of my account today saying they had gone back to original T&C. I guess a LOT of people must have cancelled memenbership.
I love FB, but try not to put anything too personal on there. I guess you have to be careful about any personal details, not matter what the website.

it would be really really unfortunate if this meant i'd have to cancel my FB account. I live accross the world from 99% of my family and it's such a great way to keep in touch.

i'm always surprised at the number of people who have their photos set so that friends of friends can see them. i've snooped through so many people's lives...

me too! it's too tempting not too!

wheesht - I thought you could check out, but you could never leave? I de-activated my account because my ex was starting to stalk me all over the internet and sending nasty emails to my friends about me.

However, it said something like "sorry you're leaving us, but if you ever want to come back, all you have to do is enter your log-in details." So basically, I think that means that I can't even check into facebook to have a look round using my old identity, or it will just reactivate my account. For now, though, I can't be found on facebook by any other users.

Or have I misunderstood?

No I am not worried. Of all the millions of users they are unlikely to want to use pics of my DCs eating, crawling, on their swing, playing... bore bore bore you get the idea. I can't see how anyone would make money out of them.

What is the problem with pics of your DCs? Is this about paedophiles? ffs

YABU
facebook needs to have rights over your stuff in order to be able to share it with other people. It also needs to keep rights when you quit facebook otherwise it would have to delete every message, wall post and comment that you ever left on anyone else's page.

They aren't trawling through people's personal albums to find pics to sell to advertisers.

Trip trap?

OP - your posting style is EXACTLY the same as the post about the lack of bottle warmers at the BABY clinc!!

Aitch - isn't it the case that as soon as someone is tagged in an album you can see all the rest of the photos (even if the original poster has set their privacy settings so that only friends can see it?) Ditto if someone posts a comment on someone else's photo? I usually have a quick snoop look too

HarpoMarx, no. Sometimes you can see them (if the original privacy settings are for friends and friends of friends or however it is worded) and sometimes you can only see the ones where your friend is tagged.

oh, I always seem to be able to see the whole album... I have my own settings set to 'only friends' so I was worried that I would be exposing all my photos by tagging them. Thanks for that!

I'm rather sorry they've gone back on it. I was about to suggest that we start a viral campaign to get everyone to post 1000s of really shit out-of-focus photos of pointless useless stuff.

Pity.

really, harpo? i thought you could at least have some privacy. that's ludicrous. glad i've hardly got any photos up.

LOl at barcode.
obviosly you are terrified for others civil liberties

Yeah. I'm beside myself with worry for those people who have put their entire lives up on the net for everyone to see without giving a thought to the possibility that it might be dangerous or in some way unwise.

It's crippling having a conscience like this....

arf.
Whereas a common or garden zebra is not oft seen ont he net

I'm actually not sure, Aitch - that's why I asked! I have definitely seen some pics that I think the owner should have kept private...

Thing is Mario, because we're stripy we're very difficult to see against a binary background.

arf.

Even if lots of people can see your photos, what's the problem? If the photos I post are OK for my friends to see eg pics of a wedding or baptism then what's the problem with other people seeing them if they are so devoid of a life that they want to look?

Mostly I agree with you, neenztwinz... however, some of my friends seem to have about 300 friends, including random people they have 'met' through facebook. I don't really want them seeing my life, iykwim - I use facebook to keep in touch with people pretty close to me.

And not everyone posts photos that as innocuous as the ones you refer too - I have been regaled with a lovely photo of the friend of a friend's arse that I would really rather not have seen

www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/facebook-privacy-chief-hits-back/2009/02/20/1234633030903.html

Looks like Mr Hilton (and many other journos) didn't do thier legal homework properly! Oh well, I guess it made a better story that way.

They have changed it now they are not able to keep anything you should of got a message from Facebook