Re:Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not...
by bertil on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:38PM
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> it’s in Facebook’s interest to get us all to overshare
Could that absurd legend get buried already? It’s their obvious, direct commercial interest to keep your private information reserved for themselves, to improve proprietary targeting. The over-sharing might be Zuckerberg’s openness ideology against his company commercial interest.
> just imagine how worthless Yelp would be if a majority of its users turned their reviews to “private” or “friends-only.”
Well, I don't know about Yelp, but my Facebook NewsFeed has mainly friends’ updates. There are some advertising, but I doubt the advertisers feel their privacy violated by those.
Re:Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not...
by paul_f on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:36PM
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Facebook does not really care who you share your posts with. It does care that you stay on Facebook so that it can charge Coke and Nike and other big brands huge dollars to put their posts into your timeline. So, making you feel a little better about Facebook security could mean more money on their bottom line.
Re:Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not...
by deveac on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @10:03PM
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Also, over-sharing to too broad an audience pollutes the feeds of those users with likely irrelevant info, making the entire property less appealing to those users. I don't think this has anything to do with altruism.
Re:Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not...
by jamesaguilar on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @05:35PM
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Little bit, yes. It is a cute thing. That can be all it is. They did not need to do this at all. It is unlikely that they are trying to insert subliminal negative messages at cross purposes to the dialog box.
Re:Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not...
by Zarel on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:15AM
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The article already addresses that concern:
> You might suspect this is actually a clumsy attempt on Facebook’s part to get people to change their settings from “friends” to “public.” But it isn’t, at least for now: A Facebook spokesman told me the only people seeing the pop-up box in the current test are those who are already posting publicly on Facebook. From Facebook’s perspective, then, this feature can only lead to one thing: Fewer people sharing publicly.
Could that absurd legend get buried already? It’s their obvious, direct commercial interest to keep your private information reserved for themselves, to improve proprietary targeting. The over-sharing might be Zuckerberg’s openness ideology against his company commercial interest.
> just imagine how worthless Yelp would be if a majority of its users turned their reviews to “private” or “friends-only.”
Well, I don't know about Yelp, but my Facebook NewsFeed has mainly friends’ updates. There are some advertising, but I doubt the advertisers feel their privacy violated by those.
(For a minute I thought it was a Firefox dinosaur, in which case the derivation would have been far more obvious.)
> You might suspect this is actually a clumsy attempt on Facebook’s part to get people to change their settings from “friends” to “public.” But it isn’t, at least for now: A Facebook spokesman told me the only people seeing the pop-up box in the current test are those who are already posting publicly on Facebook. From Facebook’s perspective, then, this feature can only lead to one thing: Fewer people sharing publicly.