"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

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I think more and more companies are doing that sort of thing. As well as investigating potential employees before they decide to hire. I've also heard of companies getting at content on Facebook even though it was marked friends only. At least on LJ a lock is a lock, but FB seems to be a bit ... fuzzier about that.

[greedy-lover.livejournal.com]

Maybe.. I o know that for some people, before they accepted my friend request, some of them had it so I only saw their profile pic and like everything else was locked til the request was accepted. I made sure to make my things friends only... I think pics maybe friends of friends but not sure.. This is just getting crazy though.. all this bs and such.. WTF happened to right to privacy >F