Would you grant access for someone else to update Facebook?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I don’t want to derail **Yeticus Rex’s **thread so I brought this here.

I was a little surprised when I logged into facebook to try and vote that it required me allowing Pepsi to:
Access my basic information
Post to Facebook as me
Access posts in my news feed
Access my data at any time

Now I chose instead to create a Pepsi account in order to vote but it made me wonder how many people would grant that kind of access.

Even if I was inclined to allow that kind of access to any company I couldn’t do it for Pepsi as my friends would immediately call telling me I’d been hacked. My cola war side is well known :smiley:

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I rarely click on anything in Facebook; the times I’ve tried doing so, the requests are pretty scary. Most recently I got an email from the QuickOffice (phone-based MS Office app like Docs To Go) with a contest that had to be entered via Facebook. I decided I didn’t need the iPad (or whatever it was) enough to grant those kinds of permissions.

In short, not just “no” but “HELL no”.

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I was out for drinks with friends recently. One friend ran off to the ladies room, leaving her phone behind. Of course I picked it up and posted, “Can’t believe Bill is cheating on me with a man from work. SOB”.

She is still dealing with the repercussions. And Bill (her husband) is kinda pissed.

So I’d answer the OP, “Hell no”.

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The “post to Facebook as me” just means that you’re going to let it do a more complex version of “sharing” a post. I assume this “cola wars” thing probably involves you voting and the app putting up a post on your wall, maybe with your name as the poster, saying something like “oh hai, I love Pepsi and voted for it over Coke; you should vote too!” It’s not going to robo-post about your unnatural love for cola products while you’re asleep, that kind of thing.

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I practically never update my Facebook page myself, why would I let someone else do it?

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:smack:
And THIS, children, is why you put a passcode on your cell phone!!!

Or lock your computer when you’re away, as one Doper learned to his eternal chagrin…

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I think I’d rather get the occasional joke about being a sheep shagger then deal with the fallout of having all my friends and relatives think my spouse was cheating on me. Or rather that I posted about my spouse cheating on my on facebook.
One’s clearly a joke, the other people don’t realize is a joke.

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I voted once on F.B. in a questionaire that may or may not have been sent to me by a mate on the other side of the world called the friends fighting quiz and it zapped into friends pages and totally pissed everyone off.

So now I NEVER vote on anything on F.B.

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At my husband’s cousin’s bachelor party someone kept stealing his phone and updating his facebook status to things like “I LOVE buttsex!” for all his friends and family to see.

If I’m going to be getting drunk around those types of people, my phone is not leaving my side.

As for companies and websites that want access to post on my FB page I say no. I don’t want random shit posted on my page by some site/product/whatever. How annoying would that be?

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I’ve never seen an app that actually required it. Sure, you signed up for it when you started, but then you can shut it off. Then again, it’s been a while since I’ve added anything. I only know you can shut it off because I saw the options when trying to clear out my mom’s 100s of apps.

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That’s Facebook’s standard app permission box. They pretty much all say that.

You can shut it off any time, but basically it allows you to post in the app as you (otherwise it couldn’t do that, which makes the app useless to you) and allows certain actions to appear on your wall (such as “Moonlitherial is now using the Pepsi App”).

It’s not nefarious, you can shut it off any time, and it only relates to actions you take (and you can remove any of them). There’s a robust spam/abuse system should it make the mistake of taking advantage of you.

I’ve developed a Facebook app before (not a good one, admittedly), and the access it grants is much more restrictive than you probably imagine it is and is pretty heavily regulated by Facebook.

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To be fair there ARE some that are nefarious. There are ones that will post as you on your friends’ walls, for example. I’ve had friends get taken by those and ended up accidentally spamming everyone.

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Yeah. They get stomped on pretty quick by Facebook, though, and Facebook is tightening stuff up. It’s the same issue as spammers in general, and being treated as such. The hoops you have to jump through these days to publish an app are much tighter than they used to be.

A well-known company ain’t gonna do it. You’re safe with Pepsi.