Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’

Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by zacharycohn on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @08:33PM (#2998416)

If someone can "subscribe" to me without me approving them, it seems like there's a major privacy concern there (what else is new...)

One benefit to the two-way friend/approve system was if your teacher, boss, parent, or stalker try to friend you, you can deny it and they can't see your info. It seems like now they can just subscribe and you don't even know..?

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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by zdrtx on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @09:22PM (#2998526)

Subscribers can only see your public posts. You can still control the privacy of your photos, information, etc. by setting the privacy to friends only or friends of friends. You can also choose to not allow anyone to subscribe to you.

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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by liuliu on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @10:07PM (#2998626)

Allowing people to subscribe you need you to opt-in first. It is not a default-to-opt-in thing.

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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by zacharycohn on Thursday September 15, 2011 @05:28PM (#3002212)

Ah, that info was not in the article when I read it.

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