Why are people a;lways complaining about privacy on facebook?

[Adam]

this is the latest one:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-enables-facial-recognition-setting-without-warning-use.html

Some of the comments on there are really stupid:

Face book is for sad lonely people who want the world to know what they had for breakfast

Get a real life -not an on-line on

These sites should be outlawed, they do whatever they feel fit and are invading privacy, destroying peoples lives and getting people fired for no more than not liking the boss which most people do not anyway

 

[Semicolon]

It's the same reason that people complain about CCTV: people have a right to privacy.

[Squidusa]

It's the same reason that people complain about CCTV: people have a right to privacy.

There is a difference.

You sign up to facebook out of choice , CCTV is not a choice.

[Scrapheap]

Define a;lways pleez k, thanx.

[Adam]

Exactly. it's a fucking website. no one makes you join it. and you can easily delette your account.

also I don't really see how this violates privacy any more - people were already able to tag their friends anyway

and CCTV is in public, not private. therefore, umm, not private

[Semicolon]

Exactly. it's a fucking website. no one makes you join it. and you can easily delette your account.

also I don't really see how this violates privacy any more - people were already able to tag their friends anyway

and CCTV is in public, not private. therefore, umm, not private

Other people can post pictures of you without your permission, even if you don't have a Facebook account.

[Adam]

Exactly. it's a fucking website. no one makes you join it. and you can easily delette your account.

also I don't really see how this violates privacy any more - people were already able to tag their friends anyway

and CCTV is in public, not private. therefore, umm, not private

Other people can post pictures of you without your permission, even if you don't have a Facebook account.

yeah? what's new there? that could be done previously

and people can post pictures anywhere on the internet

[ProfessorFarnsworth]

Exactly. it's a fucking website. no one makes you join it. and you can easily delette your account.

also I don't really see how this violates privacy any more - people were already able to tag their friends anyway

and CCTV is in public, not private. therefore, umm, not private

Deleting it doesn't help as that only deactivates the account. Besides even if it is deleted, once the information is stored on the servers, it's likely being copied and sold to marketing firms or shared with 'interested parties' anyway. The saying goes, "The internet never forgets".

I also doubt Facebook became a powerhouse social networking site over conventional revenue ads or it's gimmicks, and that's kinds of what makes Facebook a bit... unsettling to me.

It's practically one of the greatest personal information database and spy tool of the 21st century. What's makes it so beautiful is that people willingly provide the information for this database, that it was franchised as a trend that people don't object to or understand the consequences of, it is amazing.

[Adam]

Maybe most people just aren't paranoid

[Parts]

Exactly. it's a fucking website. no one makes you join it. and you can easily delette your account.

also I don't really see how this violates privacy any more - people were already able to tag their friends anyway

and CCTV is in public, not private. therefore, umm, not private

Other people can post pictures of you without your permission, even if you don't have a Facebook account.

People could do that anywhere and may ways.  Facebook is something you willing enter into and should know the risks

[Adam]

Exactly. it's a fucking website. no one makes you join it. and you can easily delette your account.

also I don't really see how this violates privacy any more - people were already able to tag their friends anyway

and CCTV is in public, not private. therefore, umm, not private

Other people can post pictures of you without your permission, even if you don't have a Facebook account.

People could do that anywhere and may ways.  Facebook is something you willing enter into and should know the risks

 

it's no different to any other site in that regard. just much more popular

[Parts]

How many people really read the disclaimers and terms of use?  It's all in there

[Natalia Evans]

What did they mean by no privacy? You can make your profile private, now you can hide your family too and friends. You can decided what your friends can see on your page.

But if you want to share certain things to your friends on facebook, make a separate account and have them on there. There are things I don't post on Facebook such as about AS because I don't want my family to see it or my high school mates.

[bodie]

I think it is just a sign of the times and nothing to be paranoid about too much.  There is
lots of new technology being developed to collect data.

If you don't want people to know stuff about you,  just don't post it to begin with.

    That is the simple way i see it.


I try not to take facebook too seriously anyway

[midlifeaspie]

I think it is just a sign of the times and nothing to be paranoid about too much.  There is
lots of new technology being developed to collect data.

If you don't want people to know stuff about you,  just don't post it to begin with.

    That is the simple way i see it.


I try not to take facebook too seriously anyway

HAHA.  That douche picture looks familiar