“Unliking” Facebook
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Yeah, yeah, we all love Facebook, but what we don't like is how cavalier they seem to be with our private information, and how fast they are to change things up in this area without telling us about it. Well, it seems that people are talking...
First, consider the changes it's imposed on its users. One turns many parts of your personal profile--your city, employer, hobbies and so on--into public links unless you remove that information. Another change can expose your endorsements of links at various sites, this one included, with a click of Facebook's increasingly-ubiquitous "Like" button. (Note that my first posts on these changes failed to capture their privacy implications.) A third, "Instant Personalization," shares some of your data, without your advance permission, with other sites.
Well, the article goes on to say that Facebook itself seems both unconcerned and, well arrogant about the problems and complaints from its users, still, we keep coming back, what else are we going to do?
The Perfessor


The 20 percent statistic may be high as it comes from a law firm that handles divorces online, but Mark Keenan, managing director of Divorce-Online, says that after hearing from his staff that Facebook was a recurring issue, he confirmed the 20 percent figure. "The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to," he says.