that is their old terms of service, before the shit hit the fan the first time.

Ah, thanks for correcting me, my bad. Other than that, I think the ties to right wing money is interesting. Like “Fox buying myspace” kind of interesting. But maybe that’s just me and my tin foil hat getting out of alignment, I dunno.

Of course you can’t go on Facebook and find information you’ve marked ‘private’. You’re not paying Facebook for the data.

I’m not defending FB, hell I filled out my profile with complete garbage last year.

I agree with #39 – a p2p distributed encrypted social network with full control by the user and for the rest – well there are blogs twitter etc pp you know the open wonderfull internet as we know it.

F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5

(Probably not helping.)

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/zesty.ca

Will people beyond my friends see what I like or recommend?

Yes, you should consider the likes and recommendations you choose to make to be public information, much like when you comment or write a review on any website today or connect with a public Facebook Page.

Remember that even if you limit the visibility of a connection, it remains as public information and may appear in other places on Facebook.com or be accessed by applications and websites.

I wish these sites/applications would allow users to “opt-in” instead of making everyone “opt-out”. I also would like to see an opt-out to be capable of opting out of everything (which Facebook is not).

Perhaps I am overly pessimistic or being overly paranoid but I just see this as one huge step in the wrong direction (and which will cascade into many other wrong steps).

Although you and others may be web/tech savvy enough to understand the complications (and how to undo them), many others will not.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/04/want_to_meet_mark_zuckerberg_h.php

► http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37wW9CGWyY

I wish Boing Boing or the EFF or somebody would start a social networking thing I could trust. I’d even pay a reasonable amount to join it, like a microinvestment thing or something.

I have question though, for anybody to think about or help answer. My social life has suffered because of not having FB. I mean specifically I have been missed out or not known about events that I would otherwise be invited too. I have been turned down for both 1st and 2nd dates by different individuals because of my inability to communicate over FB (sited by the other person specifically as a reason, which I am sure says as much about them as me, but nevertheless it was a problem) and although I can only document one case (through a friends account) that I missed out on a strait forward opportunity for intimate interaction with somebody that I happened to really like.

Have other people found that lack of FB or other social networking participation leads to not only a loss of communication mediums but also to missed opportunities in the face to face social world? (My case is pretty specific to dating/events but this could apply to anything.)
Thoughts?

It amazes me how many people don’t seem to get that changing things retroactively actually means just that – all of your previously declared information is no longer private. And since they now have established a pattern of this behavior, how long until everything you type is public no matter what your privacy settings are? They are beholden to their advertisers (money-sources), not their users. And their advertisers *want* all your info.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/04/the_problem_with_facebook_its.php

I, and my life, may be boring; but is *my* boring life thank you very much.