"Facebook further reduces your control..."

[dragonimp]

Today, Facebook removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users' profiles, "including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests" will now be transformed into "connections," meaning that they will be shared publicly. If you don't want these parts of your profile to be made public, your only option is to delete them.

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The new connections features benefit Facebook and its business partners, with little benefit to you. But what are you going to do about it? Facebook has consistently ignored demands from its users to create an easy "exit plan" for migrating their personal data to another social networking website, even as it has continued — one small privacy policy update after another — to reduce its users' control over their information.

From here

Every time I start thinking "maybe I should just give in and join Facebook", they go and pull something like this. Not to say that anything you put in your profile on LJ or other journaling sites is private, either, but they never pretended that it was. I don't like this bait-and-switch way that Facebook operates.

Comments

[fullmetalrose.livejournal.com]

Girl I heard that on the radio today. I DO have a facebook but no one but maybe 2 people are friended on it. Personally I like LJ and facebook, twitter and myspace I have accounts but NEVER use them like DW have it don't use it =/

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

DW is good for mirroring, Twitter I use to keep up with other people's feeds, but Facebook... would feel redundant. Problem is I know several people who post things there that don't get posted other places, so I keep thinking it might be worth it - but then they do something like this.