So I just undeleted my Facebook account (Meiss panics, water still wet)

Dichotomy

Worthless Lurker wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Munkus

Are you worried about your data

They're hacking into his networks!

Oh god what have they done? They just subrouted and alchemized his firewall!

quick

portblock the DNS fibrecache

Qorzm

QuestionMarkMan wrote: »

well facebook is apparently having an all hands on deck meeting tomorrow to talk about these privacy concerns

that happened today

this came from it

QuestionMarkMan

Facing increasing pressure from the media and users, Facebook has called an all hands meeting tomorrow afternoon, at 4 PM Pacific, to discuss the company’s overall privacy strategy according to sources inside the company. Facebook has come under increasing scrutiny for a number of reasons and many were left with a sour taste in their mouth following a New York Times reader Q&A with Elliot Schrage, the company’s Vice President for Public Policy.

While it’s unknown what Facebook will announce during the meeting, it’s pretty obvious that changes will need to be made if Facebook is going to regain users’ trust. The most likely change will come in the form of a temporary removal of the “Instant Personalization” service, or at the least, a shift to “opt-in”, something many privacy advocates have been calling for.

Even with the criticism surrounding Facebook’s “Instant Personalization”, many privacy advocates want further changes involved with Facebook’s new social plugins, as many of them function when a user isn’t logged in and there’s no way for a user to opt-out from having their data being tracked. While we have our own opinion as to what changes Facebook should make, it’s clear that Facebook is feeling the pressure and thus the reason for holding tomorrow’s meeting.

link

edit: WELP

Blake T

This was the default privacy settings when facebook first launched.



This is them now.

Meissnerd

oh no i somehow disabled my chatting

Sheri

Yes except

If you just go

And change those settings!

Kuribo's Shoe

Deare Facebooke Ufere,

I have ftolen from you 400 datumf. If you would like them backe, know that ye muft pay me the Princely Sum of 400 poundf fterling. Thank you for your time.

Withe Regardf,
Luthor Von Hackfamillion

Meissnerd

whew i found my chats

Munkus Beaver

You're just 8 keystrokes from a total mainframe download, sucker.

captaink

Crazy.

I do appreciate the privacy wonks who sound alarms each time Facebook changes up stuff. It reminds me to go through and check my levels, which have a disappointing habit of changing periodically, as shown above.

Dichotomy

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

Deare Facebooke Ufere,

I have ftolen from you 400 datumf. If you would like them backe, know that ye muft pay me the Princely Sum of 400 poundf fterling. Thank you for your time.

Withe Regardf,
Luthor Von Hackfamillion

just so the internet knows, I laughed so hard at this post that I nearly died

Sheri

captaink wrote: »

Crazy.

I do appreciate the privacy wonks who sound alarms each time Facebook changes up stuff. It reminds me to go through and check my levels, which have a disappointing habit of changing periodically, as shown above.

No matter what changes Facebook implements, every time I go to check my privacy levels, they've all stayed the same for things that I've already set. I just set the new stuff to 'Friends only'

bowtiedseal

I've thought about changing my profile picture to something a little more recent, but my current one is so hard to improve upon

Blake T

Sheri wrote: »

Yes except

If you just go

And change those settings!

Yes Sheri, I regularly do, but it is silly if you set your settings to private stuff. Only to have facebook change them at a later date.

I always double check mine when I get the notification that security settings have been changed, but I just checked it a week ago, (as Vivienne's mother added me and there was no way in hell I'd let her see everything that goes on in there) and I was surprised to see that shit had changed again.

Munkus Beaver

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

Deare Facebooke Ufere,

I have ftolen from you 400 datumf. If you would like them backe, know that ye muft pay me the Princely Sum of 400 poundf fterling. Thank you for your time.

Withe Regardf,
Luthor Von Hackfamillion

You win this day, Garamond.

Meissnerd

bowtiedseal wrote: »

I've thought recently about changing my profile picture to something a little more recent, but my current one is so hard to improve upon

im going to go back to the batman one pretty soon

Sheri

Blaket wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Yes except

If you just go

And change those settings!

Yes Sheri, I regularly do, but it is silly if you set your settings to private stuff. Only to have facebook change them at a later date.

I always double check mine when I get the notification that security settings have been changed, but I just checked it a week ago, (as Vivienne's mother added me and there was no way in hell I'd let her see everything that goes on in there) and I was surprised to see that shit had changed again.

See

I've never had my settings change

So I dunno what's going on with you guys.

OnTheLastCastle

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

Deare Facebooke Ufere,

I have ftolen from you 400 datumf. If you would like them backe, know that ye muft pay me the Princely Sum of 400 poundf fterling. Thank you for your time.

Withe Regardf,
Luthor Von Hackfamillion

Someone get the President on the line! I got all our internets in the pipes and these hackers are coming on fast.

/newfacebookhackermovie

captaink

Sheri wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

Crazy.

I do appreciate the privacy wonks who sound alarms each time Facebook changes up stuff. It reminds me to go through and check my levels, which have a disappointing habit of changing periodically, as shown above.

No matter what changes Facebook implements, every time I go to check my privacy levels, they've all stayed the same for things that I've already set. I just set the new stuff to 'Friends only'

Yeah. But whenever they add new stuff, it's always set to "tell the whole internet", so I have to go fix it. And it certainly seems like they rolled back some of my settings on the bigger updates, I might be remembering wrong though.

Actually I think it happens when they rename or split up or combine privacy settings.

Sheri

It just doesn't strike me as OH GOD ABANDON SHIP-worthy. Like, I just go re-check my privacy settings every once in a while anyway, so it's no big deal.

Vivixenne

I dunno

None of those reasons apply to me because I don't use many applications at all and I constantly check my Privacy Settings

captaink

Yeah it's not worth quitting over.

And I don't really care if facebook tells random folks or even their special advertising buddies that my favorite movie is Die Hard or that I'm a graduate student. I'm more concerned about identity theft potential and potential employer facebook stalking, that kind of stuff.

Sheri

Yeah I also don't use applications

After Facebook Mobile started acting sketchy, I just removed it and almost every thing else.

Blake T

I mean someone on facebook today made a post about how he is "locking down his facebook" and deleting all external apps.

But yet he still leaves his mobile on there.

I mean I don't judge him or whatever, it's what he is comfortable with, but personally I am not too happy leaving my mobile out for people to get!

DodgeBlan

If you went through all my facebook pictures it would give you an accurate if not entirely flattering description of the content of my life over the last 3 years. I am okay with that I guess.

Aneurhythmia

Well, if Meiss isn't going to sack up and delete his, I guess I'll delete mine.

Raneados

i deleted mine like

years ago

posers

Aneurhythmia

Well, you don't really lose much if you don't have any friends.

Veretas

OH SNAP

Koshian

just went through and deleted everyone I don't know on facebook

seriously who the hell are these people

Melding

Me, i am those people.

captaink

Sometimes people from high school still friend me, 7 years later. And I have to figure out who they are. I just wonder why they bother, because some of them are people I'm sure I never actually spoke to.

Viscount Islands

Koshian wrote: »

just went through and deleted everyone I don't know on facebook

seriously who the hell are these people

I really need to do this.

More for people who I kind of know who they are but I don't speak to them or even really like them.

Vivixenne

I haven't looked at my friend count in a while

let's yank some numbers, shall we?

...

ok it looks like I have 756 friends (:shock:)

of whom at least 151 are from SE++

...

that is a lot

but in my defense I do not add people I do not know

Kusuguttai

koshian did you delete me

i'm tom

don't delete me bro

Veretas

Viv how are you so popular

I have 155 friends and most of them are people I knew in high school that I really could just delete because we were never really friends I just knew them.

Viscount Islands

I know people with like 2000+ friends and they know most of them.

Kusuguttai

i have 130 friends and i am only real life friends (outside of se++) with about 3 of them

Vivixenne

Veretas wrote: »

Viv how are you so popular

I have 155 friends and most of them are people I knew in high school that I really could just delete because we were never really friends I just knew them.

moving around a bunch

I am naturally "exposed" to more people than I would've been if I lived in the same city my whole life

Veretas

maybe I should facebook with you homps

should I facebook with you homps