Re:Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?
by indigoviolet on Sunday December 13, 2009 @09:29PM
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TFA says that it only changes your settings once you click through... but I have been getting new "friend requests" from people I have never heard of this weekend (since the change went into effect), I think because my profile and various other info had already been made public.
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That is highly unlikely, and if so, it's a bug (and you should report it). The code looks up your privacy settings at display time, it doesn't make some sweeping database change.
Re:Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?
by tokenadult on Sunday December 13, 2009 @10:05PM
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It's this type of crap that causes a promising idea like Facebook to turn into a has-been in a matter of years because of mass flight of users.
It's this kind of flailing around trying to figure out what kind of business to be that gives another company an opportunity to learn from Facebook's mistakes and then enter the market and seize Facebook's market share. The trick for the next new entrant is to figure out how to monetize less clueless company behavior.
TFA says that it only changes your settings once you click through... but I have been getting new "friend requests" from people I have never heard of this weekend (since the change went into effect), I think because my profile and various other info had already been made public.
Facebook's entire thing (IMO) was that it was a safe and private way to share stuff between friends.
What they've just done violated all of the brand equity I had in them, and I am seriously considering shutting off my account. I have already maxed out the privacy settings.
It's this type of crap that causes a promising idea like Facebook to turn into a has-been in a matter of years because of mass flight of users.