The Facebook Privacy Thread

[innerSpaceman]

I'm more concerned with their plans to put Facebook "LIKE" buttons on tons of other websites, most notably sites that sell things - in order to generate peer-pressure ads on people's facebook feeds with recommendations from their friends to buy certain goods or services.

Marketers have known for decades that people are prone to buy things they perceive their friends as liking. Companies are salivating over this opportunity to have friends sell stuff to their friends simply by exercising their learned facebook behavior.

[lindyhop]

I think I got all my privacy settings sorted out but I'm still mad that Facebook obliterated my profile information. Why does everything have to be a page? I tried to put some text back in and I was able to click Save and nothing whatsoever was saved.

I'm a human being, not a bunch of links.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I'm more concerned with their plans to put Facebook "LIKE" buttons on tons of other websites, most notably sites that sell things - in order to generate peer-pressure ads on people's facebook feeds with recommendations from their friends to buy certain goods or services.

Welcome to what Web 2.0 has been for most of the last decade.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I'm more concerned with their plans to put Facebook "LIKE" buttons on tons of other websites,

That's already happening. I make sure I am logged out of FB when I do any internet browsing now.