The Facebook Privacy Thread

[€uroMeinke]

I understand that privacy is a myth in the internet, but it would be nice to be able to control the context in which your information is shared/used.

I like connecting with people on Facebook - sort of - there's a reason I haven't kept up with some of them. But I hate how it has made my "friends" spammers so that it puts me in the position of dropping a friend because they post their chances to win non-existent product. Or tagging links and videos I have no interest in but clog my news stream

It's nice to keep up with people but I almost wish I could move some excessive posters into a "digest" format and get one daily update - I guess I could do that by blocking them and then just clicking on their pages when curiosity hits me.

Anyway, its hard to provide context in 140 character status updates, or pictures of yourself in gold pants for that matter to anyone in the public who doesn't really know you. So it'd be nice to assert a little privacy there.

if the Library of Congress want my twitter stream they can append it to my census data.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

It's nice to keep up with people but I almost wish I could move some excessive posters into a "digest" format and get one daily update - I guess I could do that by blocking them and then just clicking on their pages when curiosity hits me.

One thing that helps is to start hiding applications. Just hiding Farmville, Cafe World and Mafia Wars will get rid of a lot of extra posts on your feed, and not the interesting ones (unless you play one of those games)