(05.17.10): "Facebook TMI And Online Overshares: Nearly A Third Of Users Say They've Regretted An Online Post" (HuffPo) Poll: Have you?

[Laura Cereta]

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Just because you can share more online doesn't mean you always should.

A survey by Retrevo of 1000 online individuals found that nearly a third of all respondents (32%) admit having posted something online that they regretted.

Over half of people under 25 (54%) said they had experienced second-doubts about something they shared online, while just 27% of people over 25 said they had. Nearly two-thirds of iPhone users (59%) said they had "poster's remorse."

Among all users who said they had regrets about posting information about themselves on the web, 13% they were able to remove it, 3% said it "ruined my marriage or relationship with someone," and 6% said it caused them problems at home or at work.

Read the full report here, (http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/2010/05/preserve-your-facebook-privacy-post-cautiously) or check out some of the most egregious examples of Twitter TMI (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/worst-twitter-tmi-the-mos_n_556057.html)-- tweets that shared much too much.Read @ The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/facebook-tmi-and-online-o_n_579205.html)

[Laura Cereta]

Poll results are anonymous.

[foxyladi]

if you think i,m gonna tell you what it was:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[LucyTN]

I don't do Facebook and want no part of it. My family and friends know this. You can imagine my reaction when I was told by several of my friends that they saw my picture in the ones of my grandson's graduation. Well I knew who was behind that camera and he got an earful from me yesterday. To add insult to injury, I never got any of the pictures emailed to me. :mad: So my new rule is ...NO pictures. My friends know what I look like (and it ain't pretty, trust me) and it is no business of strangers.

[Laura Cereta]

I don't do Facebook and want no part of it. My family and friends know this. You can imagine my reaction when I was told by several of my friends that they saw my picture in the ones of my grandson's graduation. Well I knew who was behind that camera and he got an earful from me yesterday. To add insult to injury, I never got any of the pictures emailed to me. :mad: So my new rule is ...NO pictures. My friends know what I look like (and it ain't pretty, trust me) and it is no business of strangers.

Have you ever revealed anything here that you later regretted? I have. :o

[LucyTN]

Have you ever revealed anything here that you later regretted? I have. :oNot that I recall, but it's possible. My husband and I have agreed as to why we don't need to be on Facebook and we wish that our kids and grand kids faces and identity were not being displayed daily. They evidently aren't stopping to think what COULD happen.

[jlynne]

After my husband passed away, I made some less than artful comments about the reason I was taking time off from the forum and the response I received was vicious. I very much regretted posting that information because I was completely unprepared for the response. I think it comes from having both a sense of familiarity with someone/a group and yet still being anonymous. I know it reminded me of how much words can and do hurt.

I do have a FB account but I keep it limited to a small group of friends and family. If it was hacked, the worst thing someone might find is what we ate for Sunday dinner. It's proved a good way to stay in touch with people that are spread out all over the country.

[Laura Cereta]

After my husband passed away, I made some less than artful comments about the reason I was taking time off from the forum and the response I received was vicious. I very much regretted posting that information because I was completely unprepared for the response. I think it comes from having both a sense of familiarity with someone/a group and yet still being anonymous. I know it reminded me of how much words can and do hurt.

I do have a FB account but I keep it limited to a small group of friends and family. If it was hacked, the worst thing someone might find is what we ate for Sunday dinner. It's proved a good way to stay in touch with people that are spread out all over the country.

I was talking to someone about my FB account last night. I don't keep mine limited in terms of "friends," but I've never posted complete identification info there. I don't name my educational institutions, my work history, current employer, or private email address. And since I go by my middle name, my "legal" name is not on there but people still know who I am. I'm still thinking about deleting the account, though.

I've never posted info on FB I regret, but on this board? Yeah.

[Alces95]

I have put up somethng I have regretted. Here and on Facebook....and email.

I have an opposing feeling that I think JLynne describe well. On the one hand, I value my being anonymus but also wish to reach out and learn more about all of you. I wonder if more people think of this in that way as well?

[Suzan]

I signed up the other day to keep in touch with my kids up in Washington state. I didn't use the name I write under, but it's close to my real name, so maybe that's why I had a whole list of "friends" already there with messages to accept or decline. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I accepted all of them and BOOM, I was inundated with messages. I had no idea what I was doing, but I had to figure out how to answer everyone because they could have been someone I met at a signing or a conference somewhere along the line.

There were NYC editors on the list as well, so suddenly this FB account that was supposed to be just for fun was like ... a business venture. One of the editors gave me info about how to turn my account into a "reader relationship site." WTH?

[Brooke]

Not on FB but I have on certain online journals I used to have and it caused some problems in years past. I post a lot on LiveJournal and I always friends lock my posts so nobody else sees.

I have posted things on here I regret, like I don't think I wanted everyone to know about the cardboard cut out of Bill I used to have. That was pretty embarrassing to talk about. :o

[Suzan]

I was talking to someone about my FB account last night. I don't keep mine limited in terms of "friends," but I've never posted complete identification info there. I don't name my educational institutions, my work history, current employer, or private email address. And since I go by my middle name, my "legal" name is not on there but people still know who I am. I'm still thinking about deleting the account, though.

I've never posted info on FB I regret, but on this board? Yeah.
How do you limit friends? As I mentioned earlier, I had a list of friends already there when I signed up. That must mean my account isn't limited, right?

Beware, those of you who aren't signed up. There's a lot to learn and you can do things you'll regret without having any idea you're doing it, lol.

[jlynne]

I signed up the other day to keep in touch with my kids up in Washington state. I didn't use the name I write under, but it's close to my real name, so maybe that's why I had a whole list of "friends" already there with messages to accept or decline. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I accepted all of them and BOOM, I was inundated with messages. I had no idea what I was doing, but I had to figure out how to answer everyone because they could have been someone I met at a signing or a conference somewhere along the line.

There were NYC editors on the list as well, so suddenly this FB account that was supposed to be just for fun was like ... a business venture. One of the editors gave me info about how to turn my account into a "reader relationship site." WTH?

It's common to create two accounts -- one for friends and family and one for professional relationships. I posted what I was cooking for Sunday dinner on my FB page, so I didn't have to answer a half dozen separate emails. If I was still very active in the legal profession, there is no way that I would have put that info on a page full of professional contacts.

I hate to say it but it is all about information management.

[Laura Cereta]

How do you limit friends? As I mentioned earlier, I had a list of friends already there when I signed up. That must mean my account isn't limited, right?

Beware, those of you who aren't signed up. There's a lot to learn and you can do things you'll regret without having any idea you're doing it, lol.

FB provides that list I think. I'm not sure why you would have friend requests upon signing up. I've never sent a friend request to anyone who I couldn't find there first. You limit friends by ignoring them and keeping your page as secure as possible. Good luck with that, BTW. Check out this link (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html?scp=3&sq=facebook%20privacy&st=cse) for how to do it:


To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options.

[Spang]

I posted this once:

My bowels have been moving more than an NFL placekicker.
I kind of regretted it later.

[LadyLazarus]

It's common to create two accounts -- one for friends and family and one for professional relationships. I posted what I was cooking for Sunday dinner on my FB page, so I didn't have to answer a half dozen separate emails. If I was still very active in the legal profession, there is no way that I would have put that info on a page full of professional contacts.


Facebook is, well, pure evil. Wired just went after them last month regarding their own intentions to destroy our previous notions of privacy. They want to redefine how we think about privacy, meaning they are trying to transform the fundamentals of human social relationships.

I always keep two accounts, a real one where people can find me, like in the yellow pages, and fake ones, which I really use. But I don't ever use the real one to post anything. It would be stupid to do so. Beyond the problem of cloning on FB, you ultimately have no control over the dissemination of your information. You can limit who sees your information, but you can't limit how those who see your information use and disseminate that information. For these reasons it's completely dangerous. Over 50% of employers are now using social networking sites to research potential employees. If potential employers can find out information about you, couldn't other people, groups, and agencies? And why not criminals? An article was just out the other day regarding stupid people who have posted that they were on vacation only to find out that their houses were robbed when they got back. Seriously. People need to wake up about social networking and learn how to harness it without getting exploited by it.

[LucyTN]

A friend called me a while ago and in our conversation she mentioned someone having over four hundred "friends" on Facebook. I laughed at that. I can't imagine even having four hundred people whose names I know, let alone calling them friends.

[Spang]

A friend called me a while ago and in our conversation she mentioned someone having over four hundred "friends" on Facebook. I laughed at that. I can't imagine even having four hundred people whose names I know, let alone calling them friends.

The person with 400 friends is probably playing a game where it's beneficial to have as many "friends" as possible.

[Spang]

Also, you can reclaim your Facebook privacy here (http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/).

[LadyLazarus]

Also, you can reclaim your Facebook privacy here (http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/).

Yeah, good luck with that. Nobody seems to get it. It doesn't pay for FB to protect your privacy. They make money from being an information distributor. The more information they can get from you and give to another individual, the better it is for them.

That's why they are finally just coming out and openly embracing the fact that they are no longer in the business of protecting your privacy. They want us all to think that's a good thing. It's not.

[RE:]

The person with 400 friends is probably playing a game where it's beneficial to have as many "friends" as possible. Bingo!! I signed up under an alias, as well and got into a few games that required hundreds of friends, so I have almost 700.

Suzan...people search for people by email too...so if you used the same email to sign up as the one you give out, that is why you had friend requests waiting for you. You can also put people in groups and let certain info be seen by groups. I have 3 groups...friends, gamers, and political. Hope this answers some questions.

BTW...supposedly, if FB finds out you have multiple accounts they are suppose to lock your account.

[LadyLazarus]

Here's the article I was talking about from Wired. Read it and weep . . .

Epicenter Mind Our Tech Business
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

* By Ryan Singel
* May 7, 2010 |

Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.

Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends and family members. Even if you didn’t really want to keep up with them.

Soon everybody — including your uncle Louie and that guy you hated from your last job — had a profile.

And Facebook realized it owned the network.

Then Facebook decided to turn “your” profile page into your identity online — figuring, rightly, that there’s money and power in being the place where people define themselves. But to do that, the folks at Facebook had to make sure that the information you give it was public.

So in December, with the help of newly hired Beltway privacy experts, it reneged on its privacy promises and made much of your profile information public by default. That includes the city that you live in, your name, your photo, the names of your friends and the causes you’ve signed onto.

This spring Facebook took that even further. All the items you list as things you like must become public and linked to public profile pages. If you don’t want them linked and made public, then you don’t get them — though Facebook nicely hangs onto them in its database in order to let advertisers target you.

This includes your music preferences, employment information, reading preferences, schools, etc. All the things that make up your profile. They all must be public — and linked to public pages for each of those bits of info — or you don’t get them at all. That’s hardly a choice, and the whole system is maddeningly complex.

Simultaneously, the company began shipping your profile information off pre-emptively to Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft — so that if you show up there while already logged into Facebook, the sites can “personalize” your experience when you show up. You can try to opt out after the fact, but you’ll need a master’s in Facebook bureaucracy to stop it permanently.

Care to write a status update to your friends? Facebook sets the default for those messages to be published to the entire internet through direct funnels to the net’s top search engines. You can use a dropdown field to restrict your publishing, but it’s seemingly too hard for Facebook to actually remember that’s what you do. (Google Buzz, for all the criticism it has taken, remembers your setting from your last post and uses that as the new default.)

Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page.

Then there’s the new Facebook “Like” button littering the internet. It’s a great idea, in theory — but it’s completely tied to your Facebook account, and you have no control over how it is used. (No, you can’t like something and not have it be totally public.)

Then there’s Facebook’s campaign against outside services. There was the Web 2.0 suicide machine that let you delete your profile by giving it your password. Facebook shut it down.

Another company has an application that will collect all your updates from services around the web into a central portal — including from Facebook — after you give the site your password to log in to Facebook. Facebook is suing the company and alleging it is breaking criminal law by not complying with its terms of service.

No wonder 14 privacy groups filed a unfair-trade complaint with the FTC against Facebook on Wednesday.

Mathew Ingram at GigaOm wrote a post entitled “The Relationship Between Facebook and Privacy: It’s Really Complicated.”

No, that’s just wrong. The relationship is simple: Facebook thinks that your notions of privacy — meaning your ability to control information about yourself — are just plain old-fashioned. Head honcho Zuckerberg told a live audience in January that Facebook is simply responding to changes in privacy mores, not changing them — a convenient, but frankly untrue, statement.

In Facebook’s view, everything (save perhaps your e-mail address) should be public. Funny too about that e-mail address, for Facebook would prefer you to use its e-mail–like system that censors the messages sent between users.

Ingram goes onto say, “And perhaps Facebook doesn’t make it as clear as it could what is involved, or how to fine-tune its privacy controls — but at the same time, some of the onus for doing these things has to fall to users.”

What? How can it fall to users when most of the choices don’t’ actually exist? I’d like to make my friend list private. Cannot.

I’d like to have my profile visible only to my friends, not my boss. Cannot.

I’d like to support an anti-abortion group without my mother or the world knowing. Cannot.

Setting up a decent system for controlling your privacy on a web service shouldn’t be hard. And if multiple blogs are writing posts explaining how to use your privacy system, you can take that as a sign you aren’t treating your users with respect, It means you are coercing them into choices they don’t want using design principles. That’s creepy.

Facebook could start with a very simple page of choices: I’m a private person, I like sharing some things, I like living my life in public. Each of those would have different settings for the myriad of choices, and all of those users could then later dive into the control panel to tweak their choices. That would be respectful design - but Facebook isn’t about respect — it’s about re-configuring the world’s notion of what’s public and private.

So what that you might be a teenager and don’t get that college-admissions offices will use your e-mail address to find possibly embarrassing information about you. Just because Facebook got to be the world’s platform for identity by promising you privacy and then later ripping it out from under you, that’s your problem. At least, according to the bevy of privacy hired guns the company brought in at high salaries to provide cover for its shenanigans.

Clearly Facebook has taught us some lessons. We want easier ways to share photos, links and short updates with friends, family, co-workers and even, sometimes, the world.

But that doesn’t mean the company has earned the right to own and define our identities.

It’s time for the best of the tech community to find a way to let people control what and how they’d like to share. Facebook’s basic functions can be turned into protocols, and a whole set of interoperating software and services can flourish.

Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page in the style of your liking. You’d get to control what unknown people get to see, while the people you befriend see a different, more intimate page. They could be using a free service that’s ad-supported, which could be offered by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, a bevy of startups or web-hosting services like Dreamhost.

“Like” buttons around the web could be configured to do exactly what you want them to — add them to a protected profile or get added to a wish list on your site or broadcast by your micro-blogging service of choice. You’d be able to control your presentation of self — and as in the real world, compartmentalize your life.

People who just don’t want to leave Facebook could play along as well — so long as Facebook doesn’t continue creepy data practices like turning your info over to third parties, just because one of your contacts takes the “Which Gilligan Island character are you?” quiz? (Yes, that currently happens)

Now, it might not be likely that a loose confederation of software companies and engineers can turn Facebook’s core services into shared protocols, nor would it be easy for that loose coupling of various online services to compete with Facebook, given that it has 500 million users. Many of them may be fine having Facebook redefine their cultural norms, or just be too busy or lazy to leave.

But in the internet I’d like to live in, we’d have that option, instead of being left with the choice of letting Facebook use us, or being left out of the conversation altogether.

Photo: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote at SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, 2009.
Jim Merithew/Wired.com

See Also:

Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/#ixzz0oJzbVxq4

[Laura Cereta]

Care to write a status update to your friends? Facebook sets the default for those messages to be published to the entire internet through direct funnels to the net’s top search engines. You can use a dropdown field to restrict your publishing, but it’s seemingly too hard for Facebook to actually remember that’s what you do. (Google Buzz, for all the criticism it has taken, remembers your setting from your last post and uses that as the new default.)

Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page.

Then there’s the new Facebook “Like” button littering the internet. It’s a great idea, in theory — but it’s completely tied to your Facebook account, and you have no control over how it is used. (No, you can’t like something and not have it be totally public.)

What in god's name?! :eek: I knew things had gotten bad but this ridiculous! I was just going to do the June 6 boycott but now I am seriously, seriously considering deleting my page on May 31.

I'm already going through preemptive withdraw. :o

[Laura Cereta]

Delete Your Facebook Account: 'Quit Facebook Day' Wants Users To Leave (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/15/delete-facebook-account-q_n_576956.html)
15 May 2010, HuffPo

(I left all the links intact so you guys can make use of them if you'd like.)


As controversy swells around Facebook's latest changes to its privacy policy (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/new-facebook-privacy-feat_n_575560.html)--which is now longer than the Constitution and offers some 50 settings and over 170 options--users' interest in deleting their Facebook accounts (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/how-do-i-delete-my-facebo_n_570664.html) has soared.

A group of dissatisfied Facebook users have teamed up in an effort to organize a mass, coordinated exodus from Facebook--and they're using social networks to do it.

Their site, QuitFacebookDay.com (http://www.quitfacebookday.com/), asks users to "commit to quit (http://www.quitfacebookday.com/show-names)" Facebook on May 31 by signing their name or Twitter handle to the list of pledges.

The cause has attracted several hundred pledges--about 780 at the time of writing.

There's also a Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Quit-Facebook-Day/113684092006165?ref=search&sid=22701428.3280042888..1#!/pages/Quit-Facebook-Day/113684092006165?v=wall&ref=search) devoted to the planned exit.

"If you agree that Facebook doesn't respect you, your personal data or the future of the Web, you may want to join us," QuitFacebookDay.com (http://www.quitfacebookday.com/) explains.

For those who oppose Facebook's new privacy policy, but find "Quit Facebook Day" too extreme, there is an alternative that doesn't require immediately letting go of Facebook-based online social connections, photos or videos.

Facebook Protest (http://facebookprotest.com/about/hello-world/) seeks to challenge Facebook's recent push for more openness by proposing a boycott of Facebook services on June 6 (http://facebookprotest.com/about/hello-world/).

"Facebook's real customer is the advertisers that they work with: NOT YOU," Facebook Protest's official statement reads. The soon-to-be protesters also ask participants to:
commit to not logging in or interacting with Facebook in any way. Be sure to log out of Facebook in all of your browsers no later than the evening of June 5th. On the 6th, be sure to not use Facebook connect or click any "Like" buttons: basically refrain from ALL Facebook related activity.
The movement already has a following on Twitter (@FacebookProtest) (http://twitter.com/FacebookProtest), and even has its own Facebook Event page (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121099851252492).

On the other hand, if you want to delete your Facebook account without waiting until May 31 (or June) here's (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703) how.

Click here for a recap of Facebook's big privacy changes and what they mean (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/22/facebook-changes-the-ulti_n_548356.html).

Check out a list of Facebook's latest security features (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/new-facebook-privacy-feat_n_575560.html), and then watch a video of how to fix your Facebook profile's privacy settings in two minutes (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/facebook-privacy-settings_n_575732.html).

[Horizon]

Of course I've posted some shit I regretted later. We're talking about me here!

[VotingHillary]

I have never had a FB account and never wanted one. It really worries me about folks that have 400+ online friends, but not a single phone number of a friend in the real world.

Have I ever posted anything here I regretted? Yep...word to the wise...don't drink and post! :o

[Horizon]

I have never had a FB account and never wanted one. It really worries me about folks that have 400+ online friends, but not a single phone number of a friend in the real world.

Have I ever posted anything here I regretted? Yep...word to the wise...don't drink and post! :o

Ahh, the drunk posting!! Fun at the time, regretful later!

On my Facebook account, I am only friends with people I actually know. I think I only have 65 friends. There are like 5 that were recommended to me thru other friends that are people I dont personally know. And I like it that way. I see no sense in friending the whole damn world.

[Spang]

Why I’m Not Leaving Facebook

With all the hype about how terrible Facebook is and how their privacy policies are crap and how the world is coming to an end, I think that most people miss one part of this big pizza pie. If you don’t want your information shared, don’t post it.

Coming from a network security background, I’ve always told my clients that the only safe computer is one that’s turned off and unplugged from the network. With that, there’s still a slight chance that someone breaks in and steals the hardware so your information really isn’t safe unless it was never created. Strange, I know.

While I understand that people wish that Facebook was better at sharing their policy changes and that they cared more about what their users were saying, the sad fact is that they provide a service to millions of people for free (of cash that is). You have opted into their service and you are paying with your information. For those of you out there that didn’t know — Facebook makes their money from ads and partnerships. Those partnerships pay to have access to your information and to make the world (wide web) go around. It’s how the ecosystem functions.

I understand if you want to quit Facebook. It’s a quick fix to a much larger problem. Too many people over share information that they don’t want out there. I see it everyday on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, email, Yammer and more. If you don’t want to share it, then don’t. But please don’t preach about how Facebook has done you wrong. From the way I look at it, they’ve done you a favor — They’ve connected you with all of your long lost friends and didn’t make you open your wallet. Isn’t that what you always wanted?

The Source (http://www.centernetworks.com/why-im-not-leaving-facebook)

[Meg]

LOL I'm trying to think of something I would consider oversharing or TMI... that's a shame.:laughing:

I really only have friends and family on fb so I can't go posting about everything there anyway, my mother stalks my statuses!:rolleyes: I don't think I could delete my fb... I did once by accident and nearly had a heart attack!:rotfl:

[Laura Cereta]

With all the hype about how terrible Facebook is and how their privacy policies are crap and how the world is coming to an end, I think that most people miss one part of this big pizza pie. If you don’t want your information shared, don’t post it.

Such a concept is lost on too many people, but it's beside the point. This is a matter of principle.

[Laura Cereta]

Asylum for Facebook Refugees (http://www.aboutus.org/Asylum_for_Facebook_Refugees)

[Laura Cereta]

Study: 60 Percent of Facebook Users Mulling to Quit (http://www.pcworld.com/article/196861/)
20 May 2010, PC World

Due to prevailing privacy concerns, several Facebook members are thinking to quit the popular social networking site -- at least 60% of them -- according to a latest survey conducted by IT security firm, Sophos.

In a poll of 1,588 Facebook users, it revealed that the extent of member concerns is over the network's privacy settings. The online survey showed that almost two thirds of Facebook users are considering leaving, with 16% claiming to have already stopped using Facebook as a result of inadequate control over their data.

Only recently, Facebook has been criticized over changes on how it can share user data across its site and with other websites.

Sophos said concerns have centered on the complexity and the "opt-out" approach to sharing member information with wider networks. Media reports suggest that Facebook is planning to announce changes to its privacy settings within the next few days, but it is unclear as to whether any changes will be substantial enough to address user concerns.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented that the poll only shows that majority of users are "fed up" with the lack of control that Facebook gives users over their data.

"Most still don't know how to set their Facebook privacy options safely, finding the whole system confusing," Cluley said, adding what is needed is a fundamental shift towards asking users to "opt-in" to sharing information, rather than to "opt-out."

In response to the criticisms of Facebook's privacy policy, a number of campaigns, including a "Quit Facebook Day" have been launched to increase public awareness of the issues.

"A mass exodus from Facebook seems unlikely, but Facebook members are clearly getting more interested in knowing precisely who can view their data," Cluley said.Continues @ link...

[CGP]

Yes: 12
No: 2

[Spang]

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[foxyladi]

Of course I've posted some shit I regretted later. We're talking about me here!

::rotfl:that,s why we love ya babe:rotfl:

[Spang]

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[foxyladi]

keeping it for now..found some old friends:D

[Spang]

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[Laura Cereta]

Don't forget NOT to interact with Facebook in any way, shape, or form tomorrow (June 6) because you are protesting their total disregard for your privacy (and you know you want to protest! :D).