Facebook enters the age of accidental oversharing

Re:Facebook enters the age of accidental oversharing by nekgrim on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:56AM (#4094926)

Publishing on the user stream is, afaik, an extended permission. Facebook asks (for Timeline users) if you want to give the application these supplementary permissions, and you can disable these one by one. But the application will ask for these permissions every time you use it.

I blocked Deezer from sharing my music, and the website pop a little message every time i launch a song, asking "Do you want to share on your timeline"

Source : http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissio...

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Re:Facebook enters the age of accidental oversharing by freehunter on Monday June 11, 2012 @11:58AM (#4095248)

I do know (personal experience) that some applications refuse to work properly if you don't grant them every bit of access they request. Even if that access is not fundamental to the operation of the application.

The example I speak of is Digsby. I saw some of my friends had postings from Digsby on their wall, with "achievements" like sending 100,000 messages etc. I didn't want that, so when I installed Digsby I unchecked that option. Consequence: Digsby would randomly boot me out of Facebook Chat and not allow me to log back in. I had to remove it from my Facebook apps list, re-login, and turn off wall postings within the Digsby app itself rather than Facebook's permission management.

That's the kind of thing that irritates me.

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