If you’re really concerned with privacy I suggest going though every privacy screen and check out what it does. Don’t wait for someone to post “The sky is falling – here’s the latest thing you should turn 0ff.”

I also hate that anything that requires more than a single click, is repeatedly said to be “buried” in the settings.  Sorry if FB actually made different sections to their settings and actually requires you to click on things.  Next time I’m sure they will make one long list, which will no doubt be “to long to find anything.”

“I’m sorry, I can’t talk to you any more, I just found out you play Farmville.”

A very privileged assumption. Plenty of my trans-friends just want to work.

Not so granularly, but thanks for giving away my privacy.

Because Facebook does everything to reduce and remove privacy, and revert your settings with each overhaul.

As if you don’t get to choose who to associate with?

When I see people taking facebook seriously, I see a red flag, and I go find one of the other 6 billion people in the world to converse with.

“Your friend Bob Smith just subscribed to SomeDumbApp. SomeDumbApp automatically shares everything that you have shared with Bob with Sleaze-O Data Resellers. Sleaze-O Data Resellers now has access to your name, age, gender, sexual orientation, home town, recent status updates, list of friends and other personal data. There is nothing that you can do to prevent this in this case, but if you want to stop this in future, here’s what you have to do …”

every time it leaks your private information somewhere. 

Of course the likely result is that about 10% of users would probably be so horrified that they’d never use Facebook again, but the other 90% would just blindly click through all the notifications and bitch about how tiresome Facebook is for bothering them with this stuff.

I value my privacy quite highly and do what I can to make my use of the internet something I can control a prospective employer’s access to. But I also maintain a social network profile tied directly to my professional email and discoverable by the information on my resume. Because I’d rather not seem like a potential Creed Bratton by human resources. I’d rather my private life remain distinct from my professional, which is why I find apps like branchout kind of appalling. Who wants to use the network where their friends invite them to drunk makeout parties to also be where they do their professional networking? Who are those people?

people that never needed it, nor even felt curiosity about it, are counted by the million; and just like myself, they give a rat ass about this outrage.

If they had ONE checkbox that said “don’t ever share anything, ever, with anyone, and I don’t care what “exciting new feature” you add, I really mean it” I’d think about going back.

But they don’t, and they won’t, because that would strangle their business model.

There was the whole panic over that Girls near me App (or whatever it was called) and everyone called it creepy and exploitative… except all they did was use info people made public (if they paid attention or not about it being out there).  The problem is people are often unaware that a friend of a friend can troll your profile because they aren’t using the same settings you are.

Insurance companies are making decisions based on Facebook data they troll, because they had a picture of someone clinically depressed smiling they decided she was obviously faking.  Ignore all of the Dr’s she smiled.

Courts have forced people to make public apologies over Facebook posts, even when they went the extra mile to keep it private.

Facebook is more concerned about getting paid, they get paid the more data you share (knowingly or unknowingly) that can be scraped and used by someone.  Ask the guy who’s Facebook profile pic became the poster child for the 50 gallon drum of lube we all made fun of on Amazon.

It is one thing to punish a user for being stupid and sharing a post that they are out of town.  It is another thing to allow a 3rd party access to your profile, bypassing your imagined privacy, because someone your friends with is a tool who can’t focus long enough to get down 15 levels of privacy settings to untick the boxes leaving your info exposed via them.

Of course if Facebook cared, there would be a simple setting to bar apps your friends install from getting anything more than your name.  But then it wouldn’t be social, and social in this setting means getting bags of cash for providing that sort of access.