http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/26/facebook-defends-getting-data-from-logged-out-users/
I already concluded that I shouldn’t put any private information on Facebook, but I’m starting to worry if that is good enough.
I meant Jar.
Heh, stuff like this is why I run Facebook in its own browser and never log in from another browser.
Changed “jam” to “jar” in title.
This rates a halfhearted “meh” on the Give a Shit scale. And it’s not new news; I saw someone talking about this a couple of months back.
How else do you think it’s possible to just click a “LIKE” button and have it show up on Facebook without you having to log in every time? Would people “LIKE” stuff as much if they had to put in their user name and password every time? Probably not. Which is why I’d love it if FB did change it.
Uh, those like buttons only work if you are logged in.
About a year ago I unchecked some privacy setting somewhere that unallowed facebook to interact with other websites (things like Yelp, Yahoo etc). I was amazed and how many blank boxes showed up all over the internet after I did that. They were all over the place.
In fact, as I’ve been using facebook less, I unliked almost everything short of a few TV shows that I could use reminders on, broke ties with thinks like Bejeweled* Blitz and basically stripped it down as far as I could. I did have to turn the ability for it to connect with other websites back on when I jumped from a Droid to a Bionic. Apparently that must connect via a different platform.
Also, this seems like as good a time as any to link to this image I happened to run across a few days ago.
*Really, Bejeweled is in Firefox’s dictionary?
The was also the old CSS leak that used to catch a lot of peer to peer people. The CSS would be able to tell the torrent site if you were legit. It’s been patched in newer versions of browsers, but it was pretty cool when it worked.
this is a good article to read. thanks:). glad you posted it here.
I’ve never signed with Facebook.
Now, I don’t believe I will.
I’ve started calling it “Basefook.” All your Basefook are belong to us.
I have “platform applications” turned OFF. I think that’s part of what grabs all that info, like Joey P describes, I can’t press FB buttons on other websites, they all say I have to have “platform applications” turned on.
I much prefer it this way, FB feels much less insidious, and I also don’t play games and crap, so I don’t get any of those updates or invites from anyone. Really clears up my wall.
In case you didn’t see this in another thread, here is some information about the character of Facebook’s founder:
I’d rather have herpes than a Facebook ID.
And a debriefing for those who don’t care to check your source: he didn’t say that shit recently, or about facebook. It was about the Harvard-only pre-cursor to facebook, which was way smaller and was way fuckin’ less relevant than facebook is now. He was 19 and probably fancied himself an uber1337 script kiddie. There’s a better than fair chance he just said that in a dick-measuring contest vs. some other dumbshit. Who gives a fuck?
As much as I hate to defend a multi-billionaire in the advertising industry, you’re taking him totally the fuck out of context.
You’re also being rather cavalier, seeing as you want your genitals to “go viral” 
As I’ve said to other people, you can always use a throwaway email address to get registered, not use your last name and not upload pictures and voila, they have no personal info on you. I have several friends that use facebook to keep up and converse with friends, but do it this way to keep their private info private. Also, if you do it this way you can still ‘like’ things and let people tag you (a feature you can turn off if you want) without it being linked to you in any real way. Remember, facebook can only work with the information you give it.
I did that once, briefly. Fuckers deleted my account. But in retrospect, the name was somewhat of an obvious fake, and I didn’t use it much, so it might have been deleted due to inactivity, or more likely, deleted because I inputted only the bare minimum (fake) info and never added anything else. I just wanted it for those times when you have to be logged in to view shit that’s public anyway.
Since then, I haven’t bothered. If I can’t view it without being logged in, then I guess it wasn’t worth viewing anyway. They can take their lame privacy-leeching walled garden and shove it up their zuckerhole. I have contact info for everyone I want to communicate with, and vice-versa.
Really, they’ll delete a fake or inactive account?
About three years ago I created a fake FB account with a throw-away gmail address, so I could follow some of the campaigns in the last mayoral election. I have no “friends”, nothing posted and nothing on my wall. I log in occasionally to view the occasional thing, that’s it.
My account is still viable, I just logged in. 
I guess I wouldn’t care if they deleted it; I am also meh on the whole Facebook thing.
The person you are at 19 is generally considered a good indicator of the person you’re going to be at 27. And he apparently was a douche-bag at 19. His actions since then have done little to alter my perception of his character.
The “context” in this case is the question “Is Mark Zuckerberg trustworthy?” I say no, and I refuse to have anything with his attempt to drag the Internet back into the bad old days of AOL and CIS.
Sometimes it freaks me out a little, but then I remember I have nothing to hide. I don’t care who knows that I like The Onion and someone’s video of a cat getting knocked off a printer. As for the more serious bits of my personality, if an employer would discriminate against me because of my progressive values, then I don’t want to work there anyway.
And yeah, I don’t care what some douche kid said when he was 19. There is an enormous chasm between my 19 and 27 year old selves, so I’m going to have a hard time holding that against him. Especially knowing what idiots people are in college. OTOH, he probably is an asshole, but sometimes assholes make useful things, and Facebook is something I find useful.
Here’s the thing. The asshole in charge may be 27 now, but Facebook has been around since 2004 - and the asshole in charge has been defining Facebook’s values and policies all that time, since he was 20.