Re:This is what people you know like on the Internet right now
by zaphar on Sunday April 25, 2010 @12:07AM
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Creepy because that's an lot of information facebook lets you look up about people pretty easily using their api. Not necessarily objecting but it is a little creepy when you think about it.
Re:This is what people you know like on the Internet right now
by TheBranca18 on Sunday April 25, 2010 @12:12AM
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Facebook is just gathering as much information as they can so they can give it to advertisers. I don't quite understand why people have to share some of the stuff they do on facebook and find that far creepier.
Re:This is what people you know like on the Internet right now
by _delirium on Sunday April 25, 2010 @07:11AM
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I think people don't notice it until it's all presented back to them in some manner like this.
People might also have an unreasonable expectation that there's some law against misusing their data. Partly, it's because that is true in some areas, e.g. the phone company can't run speech-to-text on all your conversations and sell histograms of your word usage, so people might assume Facebook can't either.
Re:This is what people you know like on the Internet right now
by madmaze on Sunday April 25, 2010 @01:37AM
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Yea its quite creepy especially because they can get all your friends through whatever they are doing.. even with your FB account settings disallowing all websites access
Re:This is what people you know like on the Internet right now
by cmelbye on Sunday April 25, 2010 @10:59AM
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I'm not sure if that's technically possible... You'd have to get the content that's inside of the iframe, and I think that would break some sort of cross domain rule.
Re:This is what people you know like on the Internet right now
by Matti on Sunday April 25, 2010 @08:17AM
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I'm using the Firefox add-on LeechBlock to block access to "www.facebook.com/plugins/". (Facebook still works fine. It wasn't immediately apparent that you could use Leechblock to block access to individual folders.)
People might also have an unreasonable expectation that there's some law against misusing their data. Partly, it's because that is true in some areas, e.g. the phone company can't run speech-to-text on all your conversations and sell histograms of your word usage, so people might assume Facebook can't either.
> You need to be logged into Facebook to see
> your friends activity
...so that I know I've remembered to stay logged OUT.
Now if only sites iFraming me to FB would post an reminder like:
"Thanks for staying logged in to FB (and providing info about all your activity to our advertisers)."
Couldn't be happier.
http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html
But the site itself is inevitable and cool at the same time.