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Morrigoon
01-18-2011, 04:04 PM
Time to revisit your privacy settings and profile pages, kids. Now FB wants to make your phone number available to apps. I was surprised to find that I even still had my number in there, this was a great reminder to clear that info out.

Ghoulish Delight
01-18-2011, 04:13 PM
1) Your phone number and address would not be shared by default, it would be an option every time you add an individual app (though admittedly there is the issue that too many people would just blindly click "yes, go ahead" when the dialog pops up)

2) They've actually said they're putting a hold on implementing it.

Morrigoon
01-18-2011, 04:14 PM
Yeah, but I still like to spread the word as a reminder to folks to check that they're not sharing more than they wish to

Kevy Baby
01-18-2011, 04:17 PM
Personally, I don't care if people have my phone number. In fact, here it is: (202) 456-1414

JWBear
01-18-2011, 04:33 PM
Personally, I don't care if people have my phone number. In fact, here it is: (202) 456-1414

Have you staged a coup?

Moonliner
01-18-2011, 04:33 PM
Personally, I don't care if people have my phone number. In fact, here it is: (202) 456-1414

And yet, you never come by for dinner. You bastard.

Alex
01-18-2011, 04:35 PM
I just never saw any reason for me to put phone and address info in my Facebook profile. I don't see any reason for even the best of my friends to have that information without having had to ask me first.

Kevy Baby
01-18-2011, 05:38 PM
Can I have your phone and address Alex?

BarTopDancer
01-18-2011, 05:41 PM
1) Your phone number and address would not be shared by default, it would be an option every time you add an individual app (though admittedly there is the issue that too many people would just blindly click "yes, go ahead" when the dialog pops up)

2) They've actually said they're putting a hold on implementing it.

Nor have any privacy settings changed since the switch to the "new profile". Whatever it was is whatever it still is.

Kevy Baby
01-18-2011, 06:31 PM
And people question why I am not on Facebook

Alex
01-18-2011, 06:50 PM
Can I have your phone and address Alex?

Sure, my phone is a piece of crap (sadly, the initial bloom is way off the rose). And I'd be happy to sublet but you might be surprised how much you have to pay for a 1 bedroom in the deep burbs.

lashbear
01-18-2011, 11:04 PM
They have a book with everyone's faces in it?

RStar
01-18-2011, 11:30 PM
They have a book with everyone's faces in it?

Yes, I was thumbing through it one day while at the Police Station, and there was this one face that looked familiar. It was just a big eye.....

RStar
01-18-2011, 11:32 PM
Personally, I don't care if people have my phone number. In fact, here it is: (202) 456-1414

And now with caller ID, crank calling has lost it's luster. Dang!

Not Afraid
01-18-2011, 11:51 PM
And people question why I am not on Facebook

So, you asked me to friend you today on FB because you wanted to post your phone number as the number of the White House?

Kevy Baby
01-18-2011, 11:59 PM
Yeah, it was looking like this Facebook thing might be catching on so I thought I would give it a try.

Gn2Dlnd
01-19-2011, 12:04 AM
Great, now everybody can get my mom's address and phone number.

Ghoulish Delight
01-19-2011, 12:06 AM
Like they don't already have it.

Not Afraid
01-19-2011, 12:13 AM
Nice to see Kevin's on top of the latest technology.

Kevy Baby
01-19-2011, 12:14 AM
I was embracing my inner luddite.

wendybeth
01-19-2011, 01:40 AM
Even Tori was shocked by Kevy's presence in FB land.. FR sent, KB!

Kevy Baby
01-19-2011, 08:57 AM
Even Tori was shocked by Kevy's presence in FB land.. FR sent, KB!OK. TY. TTYL. C YA.

katiesue
01-19-2011, 09:42 AM
OOps - conversation this morning.

Madz - Is (Kevy's real name) Kevy?

Me - yes why

Madz - he's on facebook

Me - must be another Kevy, Kevy isn't on facebook

Madz - ok I'll unfriend him

katiesue
01-19-2011, 09:45 AM
Maybe I'm just and idiot but why does anyone care if someone has your phone number or your address? A simple internet search will show most of this information without facebook.

My cell number is on my facebook. Friends have used facebook to find my cell number and call me. I don't worry about it.

cirquelover
01-19-2011, 09:47 AM
So now I am the only hold out left, thanks Kevy! I can't even figure out how to change my pic on LoT,which the kid informed me must be done because and I quote " I don't look like that anymore, that's the little kid me!!". Sadly that pic was less than two years ago.

I'll never make it on FB, I'm too technologically challenged!

DreadPirateRoberts
01-19-2011, 10:31 AM
So now I am the only hold out left, thanks Kevy!

not quite

Morrigoon
01-19-2011, 11:06 AM
KatieSue: Identity theft and telemarketing, mostly.

innerSpaceman
01-19-2011, 11:31 AM
Yes, except as she pointed out, your phone number and address are readily available to identity thieves and telemarketers without facebook's help. That information is everywhere. Good luck trying to purge that info from the internets.

Ghoulish Delight
01-19-2011, 11:36 AM
Yes, but there's a difference between "It's available if someone bothers to take the time to look for and collect it" vs. "It's handed to them on a silver platter in one convenient place that groups it all together, identifies your social circle, and a list of your interests." One can accept that it's not possible to protect one's information from enterprising spammers that will mine the data while still not wanting to be complicit in making it easier and easier for them to do that mining.

Kevy Baby
01-19-2011, 12:37 PM
OOps - conversation this morning.

Madz - Is (Kevy's real name) Kevy?

Me - yes why

Madz - he's on facebook

Me - must be another Kevy, Kevy isn't on facebook

Madz - ok I'll unfriend himThe funny thing is that she even suggested you as a friend to me (there were a few people I missed on the first pass of adding friends).

Hopefully she un-unfriends me.

blueerica
01-19-2011, 03:22 PM
OK, I guess I just never saw a valid reason to put my phone number or address on Facebook. In fact it always seemed like a really bad idea.

Maybe that's why I couldn't find my name (any name, former or current) on this info website that everyone is crying about regarding stolen ID info from FB.

BarTopDancer
01-19-2011, 04:41 PM
OK, I guess I just never saw a valid reason to put my phone number or address on Facebook. In fact it always seemed like a really bad idea.

Maybe that's why I couldn't find my name (any name, former or current) on this info website that everyone is crying about regarding stolen ID info from FB.

I can't find my name attached to any remotely correct info on any website that claims to have information. In fact, several of the new websites everyone is crying about is compiling information by making people register for it. It then uses that information and the searches they do [name + city] to further data mine information from other sources and obtain accurate records.

The few websites I have found my name on (able to access without registering) have my address in one city, the city as another and the zip code as a third.

blueerica
01-19-2011, 05:30 PM
Lame-O

€uroMeinke
01-19-2011, 10:50 PM
If you put something on the internet, expect it to be shared.

Not Afraid
01-19-2011, 11:29 PM
In the olden days, there was the white pages.

blueerica
01-20-2011, 02:22 PM
W-wh-white pages?

What are these pages of white that you speak of?

Kevy Baby
01-20-2011, 03:29 PM
W-wh-white pages?

What are these pages of white that you speak of?It harkens back to the days of segregation - it was a dark period in our nation's history.

Moonliner
06-08-2011, 06:33 AM
Time to once again revisit your privacy settings kids. Now FB is going to scan photos (http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/07/facebook.facial.recognition/index.html?hpt=hp_c1)from all 500 million users and automatically tag you in any photos.

Morrigoon
06-08-2011, 11:20 AM
Yeah, I find that particular bit of technology quite creepy

€uroMeinke
06-08-2011, 12:05 PM
I think it's rather cool if a bit oversold. Right now it helps me tag photos I download, and I like that. But using similar tools in Picassa I'm going to have to presume there's a substantial error rate that will require manual intervention. Still it would be cool to see how many random people's Disneyland photos I can be found in.

Moonliner
06-08-2011, 12:14 PM
Still it would be cool to see how many random people's Disneyland photos I can be found in.

If I'm reading it right, and there is certainly no guarantee on that, it will only tag you in the photos uploaded by your friends.

Capt Jack
06-08-2011, 12:16 PM
I wonder how many pics my lil bro and I will get cross tagged.

(huh...just realized Im a 4x loser now....wonder when that happened)

katiesue
06-08-2011, 12:27 PM
If I'm reading it right, and there is certainly no guarantee on that, it will only tag you in the photos uploaded by your friends.

It actually won't even automatically tag them, it will just suggest that your friend tag them. article here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13693791)

Alex
06-08-2011, 12:30 PM
As long as it continues telling me any time I'm tagged in a photo (regardless of whether it is automatic or manually done by a person) I don't really care.

€uroMeinke
06-08-2011, 12:35 PM
I'm kinda thinking if by now you still get bent out of shape over the next alleged Facebook privacy violation, you probably shouldn't be on Facebook

Alex
06-08-2011, 12:39 PM
And, as mentioned, if the accuracy is on par with Picasa's, the false matches are going to outweigh things pretty quickly. Over the years I have so many photos of Lani in so many conditions that by the time I tagged her in all of them it was suggesting random patterns in background scenery were her.

alphabassettgrrl
06-08-2011, 01:58 PM
I may need to start removing tags. I don't tag anything I upload, and I'm kind of annoyed that they want to smack us into the direction of tagging everything.

katiesue
06-08-2011, 02:28 PM
Isn't the whole point of facebook to share things with your friends? Why upload photos if you don't want people to see them?

BarTopDancer
06-08-2011, 03:02 PM
To share them with friends. I untag certain photos and from places tags all the time.

They also want to start tagging brands. Um, sure. whatever.

Not Afraid
06-08-2011, 06:47 PM
I both get tagged and tag other when uploading pics of things like cats, raccoons, falcon, pugs, etc. This could be fun!

Kevy Baby
06-08-2011, 07:53 PM
(huh...just realized Im a 4x loser now....wonder when that happened)It was this post (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showthread.php?p=347665#post347665)

Capt Jack
06-13-2011, 01:46 PM
hmm...I was hoping for something a bit more epic. could be worse though

Ghoulish Delight
06-13-2011, 01:48 PM
Speaking of epic, looks like Facebook is planning an IPO, though not until next year.

Morrigoon
06-13-2011, 02:04 PM
I wish they'd stop sending me email notifications I"m not supposed to be receiving

BarTopDancer
06-13-2011, 02:31 PM
Did you go through all of your settings and make sure they are all unchecked? Every time they add a new feature notification settings get changed.

Morrigoon
06-13-2011, 02:33 PM
I did!

Kevy Baby
06-27-2011, 09:24 AM
According to a couple of messages I saw this morning from a couple of LoTers, my Facebook account was apparently hacked. I looked and did not see anything out of the ordinary, so perhaps it has been fixed now. Should I be worried? Do I need to do anything at this point?

Ghoulish Delight
06-27-2011, 09:24 AM
You probably weren't hacked. You probably clicked a spammy link. It just auto-posts bullsh*t to your wall. You may want to go through the pages you "like" and see if there's anything in there you don't want.

Click "Profile" -> "Edit Profile" -> "Activities and Interests" -> "Show Other Pages"

BarTopDancer
06-27-2011, 10:15 AM
It looks like a lot of people got hit with the spammly links last night, or they are new and improved because my friend, who never clicks on anything or does anything with his FB started posting them.

Moonliner
06-27-2011, 11:19 AM
According to a couple of messages I saw this morning from a couple of LoTers, my Facebook account was apparently hacked. I looked and did not see anything out of the ordinary, so perhaps it has been fixed now. Should I be worried? Do I need to do anything at this point?

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Capt Jack
06-27-2011, 11:26 AM
According to a couple of messages I saw this morning from a couple of LoTers, my Facebook account was apparently hacked. I looked and did not see anything out of the ordinary, so perhaps it has been fixed now. Should I be worried? Do I need to do anything at this point?

it was a spammy style one, not a hack. I got hit as well, but reported and deleted the entries within a few minutes so (I think) I managed to avoid anyone clicking further.

Gn2Dlnd
06-27-2011, 11:46 AM
I wonder if my mom got hacked.

Where's that yawning smiley?

Kevy Baby
06-27-2011, 11:58 AM
You probably weren't hacked. You probably clicked a spammy link. It just auto-posts bullsh*t to your wall. You may want to go through the pages you "like" and see if there's anything in there you don't want.

Click "Profile" -> "Edit Profile" -> "Activities and Interests" -> "Show Other Pages"Sheesh - that is really buried, isn't it?!? Thanks for the pointer.

alphabassettgrrl
06-27-2011, 01:40 PM
Sheesh - that is really buried, isn't it?!? Thanks for the pointer.

A lot of the useful/needful things are buried.

Morrigoon
09-21-2011, 11:57 PM
More to come (http://news.yahoo.com/prepare-yourselves-facebook-profoundly-changed-235427111.html)

Alex
09-22-2011, 12:11 AM
I still haven't received whatever floaty right side thing I will apparently eventually get.

But so far I don't really get the outrage at the other change I have received. But then maybe it is because i remember how outraged people were when Facebook changed to the current form that they are now outraged Facebook is changing.

RStar
09-22-2011, 06:36 AM
To hear Mashable talk about it, today we are going to experience either Armageddon or the return of Jesus Christ the savior. I'll make the popcorn....

innerSpaceman
09-22-2011, 08:11 AM
I rather like the one feed. But what I think it portends is that facebook will arbitrarily determine to feed me less and less.

It's bad enough I just learned you have to set each friend individually to receive all of their updates, as opposed to the default "most" of their updates, which facebook randomly picks for you. They they switched the default just recently to summary notifications instead of individual notifications. I understand how they would want to default to less work - - but I don't know how to tell facebook I want to receive ALL of my friends' updates in my new combined feed.


That live chatter box thing was so annoying, but Chrome has an easy fix to get rid of it, and good riddance. But I suspect my new combined feed is a lazy feed of roughly 50% of my friends' updates, which facebook is randomly selecting. Fvck that!

Not Afraid
09-22-2011, 08:13 AM
I expect FB will become pretty useless for me as I don't get information feeds that I usually read to keep me updated. Oh well. Not much time for it anyways.

Alex
09-22-2011, 08:15 AM
Well, switching it from most to all seems to result in I see everything they do (such as commenting on a status update for someone i don't know). Did it do that before and now I'm just hyperaware?

Because if that is different then I think I prefer worrying that I am missing stuff because FB has decided I wouldn't care over seeing the 70% of peoples activities that I actually don't care about.

alphabassettgrrl
09-22-2011, 10:34 AM
It never used to tell you about comments on people you don't know. Now it tells you that, as well as comments from and about people you do know, which get lost in the clutter. I really hope they don't make me rely on the ticker on the right to see things- it's annoying.

Somebody noticed if you put people into the "close friends" list it automatically gives you all their updates.

Personally, I didn't like the previous changes and I don't like these. I don't like constantly having to adjust everything.

Morrigoon
09-22-2011, 12:04 PM
I'm seeing posts by apps I blocked long ago. Some of them are re-blockable, some don't seem to be.

innerSpaceman
09-22-2011, 12:08 PM
Actually, my ex gf was always seeing comments I made to other people's status updates - people she was NOT friends of. I was always confused by that - but maybe it's because she unwittingly had "my" friend setting set to "all," despite the default being "most."

I haven't yet switched everyone to "all" from "most" - and I'm doing that on a case-by-case basis as I think of it. But I've yet to see any comments by friends on "strangers" status updates.

I suppose that's the whole point of that "chatter box" thing which I deleted yesterday as an annoyance.


On the other hand, I like the Timeline concept for the new profiles. But who goes to anyone's profile anyway?

Alex
09-22-2011, 01:16 PM
I've toggled peoples' status from most to all and it doesn't seem to make any difference in what I am seeing for people. And definitely seeing comments made by friends on posts by people I've never even heard of, let alone have any association with myself.

As of this morning I still hadn't seen the ticker myself though (and now I likely won't until sometime in late October) so I have no opinion on that.

Kevy Baby
10-10-2011, 09:52 PM
.

€uroMeinke
12-23-2011, 06:46 PM
So, Timeline... I was expecting something more spectacular. I haven't "published" mine yet, but lack the narcissism to go back and relive my life on Facebook. I think if I do anything, it will be to create a fictional past or pasts. Is there something I'm missing?

alphabassettgrrl
12-23-2011, 07:53 PM
Oh, gods, today's the day they send all of us to Timeline, isn't it? I've been avoiding it for as long as I can.

I like a fictional past. :) That could be fun. Reality? Mine will probably stay pretty blank. I don't think I have the energy or caring to go back and put in lots of milestones.

BarTopDancer
12-23-2011, 08:06 PM
Is there something I'm missing?

MySpace. Now without music.

katiesue
12-23-2011, 08:28 PM
Please no glitter backgrounds.

Alex
12-23-2011, 10:01 PM
I saw an app that just goes and deletes all your posts and comments that are more than X period old. Kind of intrigued by the idea since never once have I had any urge to look up something I said on Facebook more than a few days previously.

BarTopDancer
12-24-2011, 11:15 AM
I just delete old posts on a weekly basis. Not that I think they are actually deleted from the servers, just the UI.

Alex
12-24-2011, 11:41 AM
Yes, I assume Facebook will have it forever. But so long as it isn't available for random discovery by everybody in the world, I don't much care.

Gn2Dlnd
12-31-2011, 08:39 PM
Well, eventually it will be. Either through hacking, or when FB goes under, or is taken over by more unscrupulous types. Facebook may not be, but the internet is forever.

alphabassettgrrl
01-01-2012, 02:50 PM
One reason I've been a little careful about what I post on Facebook. I don't trust them. At all.

Morrigoon
01-06-2012, 09:49 PM
Well, eventually it will be. Either through hacking, or when FB goes under, or is taken over by more unscrupulous types. Facebook may not be, but the internet is forever.

Hahaha.... "more unscrupulous"...

katiesue
03-29-2012, 09:31 AM
OK WTF - why is all the crap that's usually in the sidebar (it's still there) now showing up in my feed? Which by the way why do I have to change my feed to recent posts every flipin time I go on facebook?

My feed is clogged with every like or comment any of my friends make on anyone else s wall. The only way I see to get rid of it is by each post I can "unsubscribe to ___'s likes and comments" - is there a way to blanket do this? Flipin Zukerberg

€uroMeinke
03-29-2012, 10:56 AM
I am coming to believe that since fb's goal is to make you spend more time on fb these changes and their complicated resolutions are one of the ways to keep your eyeballs and ad revenue on the site.

katiesue
03-29-2012, 11:20 AM
I agree with that.

Kevy Baby
03-31-2012, 01:58 PM
Wait; are you saying Facebook is about making money?!?

Gn2Dlnd
04-23-2012, 12:05 PM
I wear (http://www.im-not-on-facebook.com/) a large. Maybe medium by my birthday.

Moonliner
05-19-2012, 07:36 AM
We have a family friend, Godmother to Headliner, that for lack of a better term is being a douche on her facebook page. Headline is hesitant to get out the ban hammer and smack her with it, so I'm wondering.... Can Headliner put this individual in a box so that none of her other facebook friends can see any posts she makes on her wall?

Kevy Baby
05-19-2012, 08:16 AM
Yes; just make sure to leave a breathing hole for fresh air and provide enough food and water to sustain her. A well-built wooden box should be sufficient, but you may want to consider metal if said Godmother is particularly feisty.

BarTopDancer
05-19-2012, 09:45 AM
We have a family friend, Godmother to Headliner, that for lack of a better term is being a douche on her facebook page. Headline is hesitant to get out the ban hammer and smack her with it, so I'm wondering.... Can Headliner put this individual in a box so that none of her other facebook friends can see any posts she makes on her wall?

Headliner can prevent this person from posting on her wall but can't make the posts from that person private to all but her.

Betty
05-19-2012, 01:46 PM
Isn't there an option to hide all posts from a person?

BarTopDancer
05-19-2012, 02:58 PM
Yes. It sounds like Headliner wants to block everyone else from seeing douchebaggery someone is posting on her wall though. There's no way to block her friends from seeing that unless she prevents the person from posting on her wall to begin with.

Betty
05-19-2012, 05:46 PM
Facebook drama sucks. I try very hard not to post anything controversial anymore after my brother in law defriended me and barely speaks to me at family functions anymore.

Kevy Baby
05-19-2012, 05:53 PM
He doesn't talk to me at all!

Betty
05-19-2012, 07:33 PM
He doesn't talk to me at all!

See. This is what I'm talking about.

katiesue
05-19-2012, 08:08 PM
Since she's headliners godmother, can't a grown up have a little chat with her and ask her not to?

I'm actually loving facebook because it's easy to see who the kiddos friends are. Man I would have been super duper hosed if my parents had facebook, or actually knew what the police codes meant when my name came over the scanner.

Kevy Baby
05-20-2012, 09:11 AM
...or actually knew what the police codes meant when my name came over the scanner.
:eek:

Stan4dSteph
06-25-2012, 10:50 AM
Check your email listing in Facebook (http://lifehacker.com/5921095/facebook-just-changed-your-email-without-permission-heres-how-to-get-it-back?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook).

Also, EdgeRank is controlling a lot of what you see on your Wall, so if you have any non-people entities you want to see updates from, you should create "Interest" lists.

€uroMeinke
06-25-2012, 11:01 AM
EdgeRank?

innerSpaceman
06-25-2012, 11:08 AM
I don't know if this is old news, but facebook has changed everyone's email address to an @facebook address on their timeline. To change it back to an email address of your choice, you have to edit that area of your profile (under "About") to change the facebook address to Hidden From Timeline, and your preferred address to Shown On Timeline.


Sheesh.

Moonliner
06-25-2012, 11:13 AM
Comments I have seen on this seem to imply that your default email for notifications and such has not changed and that by "fixing" this issue all you are really doing is publicly exposing your email address to anyone that views your FB timeline.

€uroMeinke
06-25-2012, 11:37 AM
Yeah, I don't see the big deal on this since it effectively restricts the people I only know on fb to contact me through fb. LoT does the same thing.

Ghoulish Delight
06-25-2012, 11:37 AM
Comments I have seen on this seem to imply that your default email for notifications and such has not changed and that by "fixing" this issue all you are really doing is publicly exposing your email address to anyone that views your FB timeline.You can select who sees it (e.g., by default it's "Friends only"). I have no problem with my friends seeing my actual email address as my contact address rather than some facebook-assigned address I never asked for.

innerSpaceman
06-25-2012, 11:40 AM
Exactly. My email address listed on facebook was always restricted to Friends Only - and I want those friends to be able to contact me at my actual email address. Can Zuckerberg just die already?

BarTopDancer
06-25-2012, 12:08 PM
Hey GD, your signature image isn't exactly SFW

Gn2Dlnd
06-25-2012, 01:15 PM
That's a swimsuit. Geeze, even I know that. ;)

Moonliner
06-25-2012, 01:17 PM
Hey GD, your signature image isn't exactly SFW

A good example of why I use the "Alex" style at work...

alphabassettgrrl
06-25-2012, 01:39 PM
I find it interesting that we have so much continuing activity in this thread.

I checked on my info page- default email is intact, just there is now an additional address that will forward to FB messages. Yeah, it's stupid, but I don't think it changes much.

Stan4dSteph
06-25-2012, 01:56 PM
As others have said above, the main difference to me was that it showed a contact email address outside of "friends only." I don't want to get any more spam than I already receive.

BarTopDancer
07-24-2012, 09:35 PM
Apparently all the "ignore comments and likes by...." has been removed. I don't want to see everything my friends comment and like. Have to redo it and I don't think its sticking.

Anyone else seeing this again?

katiesue
07-25-2012, 09:34 AM
I did find out of you're subscribed (I don't know how I did that because I didn't want to) to a persons posts and they unfriend you - you still see their posts in your feed.

Moonliner
08-07-2012, 04:31 PM
Hummm...

So Mrs. Moonie decided to get a Facebook account. So we set one up using a slightly different spelling of her name (she's worried about business people seeing it).

That was about a week ago.

Today I get a phising email with that name attached, addressed to me by name at my home email. Is there still some some default that leaves your signup email address visible?

WTF Facebook?

Kevy Baby
08-07-2012, 08:24 PM
Um, wow.

alphabassettgrrl
08-08-2012, 02:29 PM
That's creepy.

Moonliner
10-04-2012, 08:41 AM
Speaking of creepy....

Farcebook is now scanning your messages and "liking" things for you. (http://gizmodo.com/5948948/facebook-is-reading-your-messages-and-liking-things-for-you)


You might think clicking "Like" is the only way to stamp that public FB affirmation on something—you're wrong. Facebook is checking your private messages and automatically liking things you talk about. Without asking you.

katiesue
10-04-2012, 09:38 AM
I have a question if anyone knows. Remember when they changed everything and you had to manually go in and say if you wanted to see everything someone posted or just some of what they posted? Well that option is gone now, or I can't find it, and there are some people that half their stuff doesn't show up on my feed. If I go to their wall it's there. Anyone know how to fix?

Ghoulish Delight
10-04-2012, 09:42 AM
Hover over one of their posts, there will be a down arrow in the top right of the post. Click on that and select "Hide". Then, where the post was, will be some links, including "Change what updates you get from [annoying person]".

katiesue
10-04-2012, 10:06 AM
Thanks - oye. Isn't it implied that you actually want to see what your friends posts hence the reason you friended them. Not just what random posts some algorithm thinks you might want to see.

alphabassettgrrl
10-04-2012, 10:14 AM
Isn't it implied that you actually want to see what your friends posts hence the reason you friended them. Not just what random posts some algorithm thinks you might want to see.

I thought that was fairly obvious. Yes, if I friend someone, I want to see their updates. All of them.

€uroMeinke
10-04-2012, 12:01 PM
Thanks - oye. Isn't it implied that you actually want to see what your friends posts hence the reason you friended them. Not just what random posts some algorithm thinks you might want to see.


Some friends post too much. I've throttled feeds from people that mostly post political/religious rants, lot's of links to youTube, tortured animal pics, etc. I still like them, but the less of this kind of stuff I see the more likely I'll continue to like them.

katiesue
10-04-2012, 12:36 PM
Oh I have blocked people from my feed for those kinds of things - but don't you want to see it all first then decide to block rather than have some random things blocked and you have to manually add each person.

Moonliner
12-06-2012, 12:10 PM
On the off chance you need yet another reason to be wary of Facebook...
(http://www.wtop.com/256/3146009/Facebooks-scary-new-photo-feature)


WASHINGTON - The problem with Facebook's new photo feature is a matter of worst- case scenarios: You take what we'll call a "sensitive" picture and you don't realize it's been automatically uploaded to your profile.

Cadaverous Pallor
12-06-2012, 02:18 PM
On the off chance you need yet another reason to be wary of Facebook...
(http://www.wtop.com/256/3146009/Facebooks-scary-new-photo-feature)What put me off of it was that I think FB lied to me about who was already using the auto-photo uploader in an attempt to get me on board. It said "these people share photos on fb", included my husband in the list, then gave the link to approve the uploader. GD does share photos manually but doesn't use the new thing. It's total bait and switch.

Kevy Baby
12-06-2012, 04:44 PM
I thought everything on the Internet was true?

lashbear
12-06-2012, 10:21 PM
OMG! Kevy's Head is made of Chowder !!

Moonliner
12-18-2012, 07:46 AM
Well now, it looks like the last "scary photo" news from FarceBook was just the opening salvo.

Take a gander as this. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/)


Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry.

The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete their accounts before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.

Another policy pitfall: If Instagram users continue to upload photos after January 16, 2013, and subsequently delete their account after the deadline, they may have granted Facebook an irrevocable right to sell those images in perpetuity

Ghoulish Delight
12-19-2012, 05:00 PM
As an update, people with better understanding of legalese than I possess have read the changes somewhat differently.

The good news: As written, the new language does NOT give them the right to sell your photos willy nilly and is actually slightly MORE restrictive in terms of what your photos can be usded for than before.

The bad news: The old language was actually ALREADY pretty permissive, allowing advertise a fair bit of leeway in using your photos (the way FB already allows, where advertisers can plop your photo into ads on the site).

The remains-to-be-seen news: Instagram has released a statement saying they are taking the reaction into consideration and working to clarify the language.

Ghoulish Delight
12-21-2012, 10:28 AM
Or, to put it another way:

Instagram
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/instagram.png
"I'm gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible."