Facebook is scaring me

Re:Facebook is scaring me by ltamake on Saturday September 24, 2011 @02:35PM (#3033964)

But I think the OP's point is that privacy will eventually fade away, so if I'm doing a Google search on "cure for HPV" this will be published publicly to my Facebook profile. I don't really care that "oh, it doesn't publish automatically unless you grant it permission!". I want to be notified when something is posted on my profile.

On another note, I'm seriously considering closing my FB account once and for good and leaving for G+. I have a good crowd of friends willing to do this (and invite their friends), but G+ offers no way to import FB data, which would be a nice feature.

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Re:Facebook is scaring me by orijing on Saturday September 24, 2011 @03:00PM (#3034057)

I don't understand. You're afraid that your Google searches will be published to your Facebook stream, so you want to close your FB account and move to G+, because presumably Google is less likely to publish to your G+ profile than to your Facebook profile?

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Re:Facebook is scaring me by muyuu on Sunday September 25, 2011 @12:04PM (#3036006)

I'm with you there, which is why I've closed my FB profile long ago, and my G+ profile within the first day (as soon as it forced me to link Picasa).

G+ makes as little sense for a private person as Facebook, if not even less.

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Re:Facebook is scaring me by dorkitude on Saturday September 24, 2011 @04:39PM (#3034281)

Wouldn't it be easier just to continue using Facebook, but never grant any permissions to any apps?

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Re:Facebook is scaring me by ltamake on Sunday September 25, 2011 @06:26PM (#3036891)

And what if Facebook decides that apps no longer need permission to access profiles? They don't care about using privacy /at all/. They purposely make the privacy controls hard to use.

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