As I referred to in a previous post, I believe that most users of Facebook do not appreciate the privacy issues regarding Facebook. I’m coming to the conclusion that Facebook may not appreciate the privacy issues regarding their own platform. Maybe they just don’t care about these sorts of things.
Also tagged IdentityA post on the Facebook developer’s blog about new APIs to allow more access to users’ content is raising a bit of a blog storm. Everyone seems most concerned with whether opening up Facebook status updates will kill Twitter. My concern is that these advertising, aka ‘virality’, channels will surely increase the amount of spam [...]
Also tagged Funware, SpamI just received an email from Facebook in Spanish telling me that a friend commented on a photo I uploaded. I’ve never used Facebook except in English. The comment that the user added is in English. The commenter likely used a Spanish configured computer to make the comment. Why did Facebook choose to inform me [...]
Also taggedI’m about to turn off Notes notifications because Facebook Notes have suddenly become the new method of sending Chain Letters and Chain Emails. I remember in the early days of email getting these “Forward this on to 10 friends and Bill Gates will give money to sick children.” or similar things. This caused me to [...]
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