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Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

#61
true.

I use facebook, and I hide the things I want to.

I use it for hair clients and I goof off on there too.

I delete "friends" after a while if we have nothing to say. One day, I might be done with it. not sure when


I don't click on any links that come to me in messages though. They are usually viruses.
 
#62
UncleFluffy said:
It's not so much about "private" / "not private" as "private" / "friends only" / "public". Facebook keeps giving people tools to restrict who can see what then moving the lines on them once they've got the information.

Putting truly private information out there is foolish, I agree, but there's a lot of things that were once "friends-only" that have been moved to "public", often by stealthy means such as leaking your stuff out through the applications your friends use.

For me, even though FB sometimes corrects these things after the user outcry, the long-term trend is obvious. I'd also rather not do business with people who keep making promises only to break them later, often with some deceptive BS intended to fool people who take their statements at face value. Make no mistake, FB users are not the customers, they are the product, and FB will do no more for them than the minimum necessary to stop the herd thinning.

In the end, I didn't delete my profile - I just stripped it completely. That way I can check for messages once a week and be sure that no-one is impersonating me to my friends (which has happened in the past to others).
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+1

Instead of opening things up to everyone and saying you can choose to restrict them (if you can actually figure out how), they should keep things restricted and tell you how you can open them up instead.
 
#64
I'm going to pull the plug on my FB account, it's one of the most useless things I ever participated in.

Being on TB or any other hobby dedicated forum can be time consuming as well, but at least you're picking up something!

I was away for a month and when I logged on again, I realised FB is so 'common place', so boring, so much about all this useless crap I don't care about.

I should be reading instead of being on FB, I should be biking instead of being on FB, I should be climbing, playing bass, studying, writing, taking pictures, whatever!

And if you go to the deactivate page on your account, it says 'are you sure you wanna leave? xxxxxxx will miss you!'

Seriously?
 
#67
Not sure if any of you are/were world of warcraft players but there was a huge outcry about a new policy they were going to enact, after a collaboration with Facebook.

They (Blizzard) were going to force anyone using the forums to use their real names. This was supposedly to stop trolling. When the post came out, the outcry was immediate. Within 24 hours, there were almost 2000 pages of posts against this.

One developer posted his name saying how "you can't find out personal information with just a name". A couple of hours latter, the search results were posted, with his home address and phone number, families names and addresses, etc.

Though Blizzard didn't admit it, many believe this was due to the collaboration with facebook. Possibly to gain access to the estimated 11 million World of Warcraft subscribers.

I quit world of warcraft that day, haven't looked back. Still have my facebook account, but seriously considering deleting it.

Now I have plenty of guitar practicing time.

Thanks Facebook and Blizzard.
 
#75
I officially became disgusted with facebook when I attempted to post an MP3 there (just wanted a convenient place to post it so my friends wouldn't have to do an extra step and click on a link), and I was presented with a waiver that I had to accept first saying that I agree to relinquish all rights to my song to facebook. that's going way too far (that's got to be why most people just post videos). the only thing still keeping me on there (by a thread) is the fact that I'm under a fictitious name, do not list any personal info, and the email I listed is a secondary address only used for sites that might spam or not be completely private. thanks for the article and all the good info
 
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#76
My account has now disappeared (after deactivating and not logging in for two weeks).

It's great, and it has opened my eyes.

FB is the next level of virtual community. Whereas something as TB is pretty much seperated from daily life, FB is stronly connected (interwoven ?) with it. It becomes a part of it, and that's what makes it so addicting and dangerous.

FB is in corporate hands, and the CEO's of this company have not exactly shown to have good intentions with all this information they have gathered. If FB were something set up by the users itself (using your own PC as your host and using a program installed on your computer to share it with others, something like that), that'd be completely different.

If you're not careful, a part of your life becomes owned by a privatly owned company.
 

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