Well, given your carelessness in putting personal information online in the first place, I’m sure that’ll change soon enough.
My advice is to cancel the annual subscription and use the money for something else.
I don’t really understand the “If you didn’t want anyone to see it, don’t post it online” folks. It isn’t anything notoriously private, but perhaps you talk to your employers and your friends and your parents all in exactly the same way. I don’t, and I’d very much like to keep a barrier. My coworkers almost never see my real sense of humor, and I’d prefer it that way, and my parents just wouldn’t get it.
I’m not sure how this equates to putting my very very personal stuff online! I am extremely careful in what I post, even when it’s locked up, but I still would like the program to do the shit it says it does.
This is the biggest reason I stopped posting on FB, btw.
What personal information? What carelessness?
This is exactly what I am talking about, thank you. For example, I have friends on FB that I know from my religion. When I am talking to my friends I occasionally curse, I never curse around these people, and I made filters on purpose so they would not see me curse. This isn’t “personal” information, but I don’t talk that way in front of them.
I am pretty shocked FB screwing up MY privacy is somehow my fault to the people here. Basically the arguments I am running into here are arguments against using social media period.
It’s the Pit, don’t sweat it, someone always goes contrary just to be contrary.
I’m sorry, was I not writing in English? Maybe I should type slower next time.
It was english it just didn’t make a lick of sense since I didn’t post any personal information and I wasn’t careless.
I know this is a riff about how I don’t pay for FB, but FB is a huge money making machine because of people like me seeing their ads, I am a customer just as much as if I paid for the service. Or would you feel fine if the SDMB gave you malware from a banner?
You claim that you would sue Facebook if you had the money to do so because you don’t know “who saw what”. Are you saying you would sue them for revealing your filthy potty mouth to your Bible study pals?
I was thinking more along the lines of, if I had the money, and I was job searching and found out I was disqualified because of something innocent that I posted privately on facebook that was revealed publicly because of a software glitch I would consider it.
And I know you’re just trying to be a cool middle-aged e-bully but “religious” is not a synonym for “Christian”, FYI.
Question for the people giving me flack, was I worthy of such vitriol when I posted my political orientation (potential hiring manager might not like mine) on my private profile, or did I become worthy of the vitriol after FACEBOOK glitched and revealed my info publically? Because if the former, then that is an argument against using social media period…which is fine, but just realize it makes you sound like the parents outraged at Elvis’ swaying hips.
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Actually, that’s not the case. It’s not the ads you see that make them a multimillion dollar company. What makes them a multimillion dollar company is that they are data-mining their users, and selling that info. That’s why they make it hard to find the proper settings to secure stuff. The more info they can get from you, the more money they can make selling that info. That’s why I don’t use Farcebook.
Good point, but I’m their customer either way. I’m comfortable with them selling what data they have mined (hey this guy in the 18-30 bracket likes videogames a lot!) , I am not comfortable with them making my information public without my knowlege due to a software screwup so that hiring managers can look for an excuse to put me into the discard pile.
OR if I lost my current at-will job because of something I posted. I actually worked at Nintendo when a girl made the news for getting fired posting something about her boss on FB, neither Nintendo nor the boss were even named in the entry.
I think that most of us are just pointing out (colorfully, as this is the Pit after all) that you’re a bit naive to have ever trusted FB’s privacy settings in the first place. An employer can’t fire you for what you’ve shared if you never shared it in the first place. And you’re not a customer of Facebook’s, you’re a commodity.
Diamonds, porn - and now the internet - are forever.
So no one should use social media to talk to friends or else you get what’s comin’ to ya, got it. :rolleyes:
What you said. If one doesn’t post it, they can’t mine it. If one does post it, they will mine it. Complaining after the fact just shows that they were right about how stupid their users are. And are selling the data about your “friends”, right now, sucker.
Basically, yes. Sucker.
Don’t be silly. The dogs and cats just watch and occasionally put a cold nose in an ass crack.
I guess my daughter is the exception to this rule, heh. But then, our relationship has been mainly long distance for years, so we find Facebook to be a fun way to keep in touch. She likes it when I “like” and post on her goofy posts. 
If our mothers respected our boundaries it might be OK. 