Facebook changes - a feature too far?

shellsuit

frugaliciousness wrote: »

no I don't have it. Why would I say I didn't have it if I had? :cool: It was in reply to poppy-f1's comment about people seeing comments who you aren't friends with. I was querying that's all, trying to figure out what the problems are with privacy.

Because of what you said.

So ex-boyfriends, old collegues can see what I'm [STRIKE]I'd be[/STRIKE] doing and saying to others?

Maybe the post would have been better worded like that then.

Dontknowanymore

What is this about non friends bein able to see what you are writing??????????

Dontknowanymore

Also, just because a service is free, does that mean we have no right to complain about it! Me thinks not!

frugaliciousness

shellsuit wrote: »

Because of what you said.



Maybe the post would have been better worded like that then.

so funny. I quoted poppy_f1 and asked a question.

Thank you for taking the time to correct my post though. MSE is full of helpful people.

Maybe the correct way should have been

So ex-boyfriends, old collegues [STRIKE]can[/STRIKE] could see what I'm doing and saying to others?

could (as and when the ticker is on my account comes into force) and 'I'm doing' is correct as I'm already on facebook 'doing'.

Boring isn't it? nit picking *yawn. T'ra

shellsuit

frugaliciousness wrote: »

so funny. I quoted poppy_f1 and asked a question.

Thank you for taking the time to correct my post though. MSE is full of helpful people.

I'm not trying to be funny.

You said you didn't have it, then posted again and it's what you said in that post which sounded like you do have it. (ETA : I meant FACEBOOK, as a whole, not the changes).

I was just asking a question too.

shellsuit

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

What is this about non friends bein able to see what you are writing??????????

Say for example you post on one of your friends walls, or comment on one of their pics, and that person isn't a friend of mine, because I'm a friend of yours, I'm notified on the right hand side and can see that comment.

It's stupid, because I'd obviously have no interest in what you're saying to your other friends because I don't know them.

bratz81

shellsuit wrote: »

I'm not trying to be funny.

You said you didn't have it, then posted again and it's what you said in that post which sounded like you do have it.

I was just asking a question too.

I think that they meant they don't have the newer features yet as apparently facebook are rolling them out in stages.

shellsuit

bratz81 wrote: »

I think that they meant they don't have the newer features yet as apparently facebook are rolling them out in stages.

Right!

I'm with it now lol

I thought they meant they didn't have facebook at all, not that theirs hadn't been updated.

Doh!



Mine only updated because I refreshed the page, wondering what all the fuss was about. Wish I hadn't now!

Bella_b

They saw Google+'s great security features and tried to copy them basically as most people knows that FB doesnt have very tight controls on that.

Jai_M

From what i caught on the news at god knows what hr this morning, facebook are setting it up like a life diary, with pics & events from birth.

From advertisers points of view, and therefore facebooks also, this is PURE GOLD. eg. if someone mentioned that they liked horses, or did horseriding or has a pic of them on a horse, or infact their friend has one (cue face recognition) when they were growing up, ding dong, that grown up now has a job, we know that cos they told us where they work, so we also know how much they earn... we know if their in a relationship and if they live at home or flat etc. therefore we know their disposable income, so i know, lets subconciously bombard them with ads for horse riding lessons.

The face recognition thing is also a bit worrying, say google have it and cross it with street maps/public webcams(you know the ones that people set up to point at something outside), google becomes the biggest stalker in the world.

ps. although im very sceptical of facebook, i do admire the shear world wide domination of it.