Toss out your privacy as Facebook becomes more stalker-ish

Regarding your personal information: As of today, there is a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Allow." Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites and uncheck "Allow".

Wow..... I'm so glad I got rid of my facebook account months ago..................

facebook is for people who are lacking a life.

Smartypants,

I have a life. I have family and friends in other countries. Im sorry you dont have any friends to be on your facebook, please dont take it out on those of us who do. :)

facebook has made me rich! it is the best website out there to make money. I would pay $100 a month to use facebook, if not more.

Facebook aka Macebook is nothing but trouble. These social networking sites are for pedophiles and stalkers. The telephone has been around for ages, call your family overseas or write (email or letter) to them. You can always msn with them as well. Facebook is nothing but garbage, full of viruses, hackers, and criminals who can get at you, your friends and family or God forbid your children and your personal info.

Well, in my opinion, facebook is good, its used to keep in contact with friends anywhere in the world [that is what it was made for, other than a school assignment]. On the other hand, people can use it to get to know people, check up on people they have just met in real life and make sure they arent playing a different role towards you.
This site was basically meant for people to keep track...call this stalking if you will... added apps that tell your friends what sites your on, and whos profile your viewing.. THAT is the epitome of anti-privacy. I dont think that this should be created within facebook. We all know that people go on sites such as chat sites, lovematch.com and spend hours watching pornography, this is not something one would want all of their friends to know about, or again, their MOM to know about. So please, keep some privacy on the net, there are boundaries, and doing this, is definately crossing a major one.

Thank you, and goodnight.

RE: Macebook:
Facebook is NOT for stalkers, though some stalkers do go on it, and some pedophiles- i am in no way condoning this- however you can not save people from every problem out there, you could be walking past hundreds of pedophiles each day out on the street and we unaware, the internet is obviously not the place to be if your worried about your privacy and safety.
As for sending mail and calling overseas, do you not realize that this type of technology was created to make connecting easier? If you want to get ahold of family members or friends millions of miles away, the click of a button makes that much easier. The telephone is great, but think about what your arguing here...
Thank you & goodnight.

A lot of my Facebook "contacts" and "friends", I don't really like them and I don't really want to be associated with them or socialize with them, but I live in a small town, don't want to insult them, so what can I do? I'm currently mulling over the idea of deleting my account & this development might make that decision a lot easier.

I'm so glad I don't use these retard sites. Because connected with people I didn't like in highschool, finding my boss is looking at my personal venting about him/her and using it as grounds for "performance evaluations" (read, harassment: what happens outside of the workplace, does not affect the workplace, unless it is brought Into the workplace), dumbasses who forgot what an e-mail or phone number is, people who think these tools are a way to measure your relationship's progress (Status: no one gives a shit), and the best of the best: The facebook suicide guys and gals: because you don't have the spine to tell someone off after they piss on your wall, nor the brains to get help when it bothers you! (Note: Those kinds of people are not to be confused with people with deepseated psychological traumas nor those suffering from severe and manic depression. My heart goes out to those with real problems. It does not extend to those who cut themselves over a barely sarcastic remark about your status or facebook posts. Get a life).

Now, add to this confuckeration a mix of passive agressive advertising, stalker-like behaviour from advertising programs (those "bots" as most people call them), and the now full-blown evidence that FB maker and generally anti-social 20-something, Mark Zuckerberg, doesn't actually give a shit about privacy laws and privacy as a concept, and you have a reason to STOP USING THIS PROGRAM. Go out, meet people again. Get over the fact your best friend didn't sign your wall about your status "Single and bitchy, again" the instant you posted it up, and instead call the person and do what people with real lives do: meet in person and vent. Or at least we once met over the phone and chatted. That way you're not stupid enough to give out any info the person shouldn't have, nor are you buying shit and spyware from them. And if you are stupid enough, at least you can hunt the person down and repay them threefold.
Cause frankly kids, you could all use the fresh air and sunlight anyways.

Well said...you had me at 'dislike' button...Maurice I am sipping your kool-aid

I avoided fakebook for years, but gave it a try after several 'friend' requests. I'm an adult and I found it a rather juvenile program, designed by and for teenagers and young college students, like cyber highschool. There is nothing of value offered by facebook, that I cannot accomplish with email. True, I cannot grow a cyber garden and farm. Instead, I go out and tend to my REAL garden and enjoy the REAL fruits of my labour. I also socialize with REAL people in the flesh and play REAL musical instruments, send REAL cards, and Real flowers............etc.

OK.....why would ANYONE have a problem with your friends knowing that you LIKE a website?? If you didn't want people to know you LIKE it then just don't click the f*cking LIKE button. Huge issue, simple solution.
Facebook is NOT a retard site. Me and plenty of my personal friends keep in touch that way. Many of my friends live a long ways away......and sometimes you just want a quick "Hi" without having to pick up the phone and have a long conversation. I'm not stupid enough to add my boss or co-workers. I definitely don't add people I "dislike" or "don't want to associate with" like Mike Keohane.....how absurd is that? Have you never heard of ignoring a friend request? Try it! I do it all the time. You can set your privacy standards so tight that no one can see anything you don't want them to see....so quit whining about how Facebook is invading your privacy. Sheesh, people!!! Find a real issue to worry about.

To the comment that Facebook is for people who are lacking a life...I play in a band in various venues around Asia, and my musician friends are also constantly gigging in various countries and cities. Also, the people who like to see my band, or my friends' bands, can easily find out where the next show is as part of the Facebook product. They fly to where we fly and it saves a ton of time e-mailing, phoning, etc.

I don't feel like I am lacking a life, Dude. If you have no use for Facebook maybe you are lacking a network? That's cool too, but don't jam on people who enjoy keeping friends informed.

i will say again....facebook has made me extemely wealthy (well...more than i was making before)! everyone can profit from it if they are smart. It is also amazing for promoting events. again....i would pay 100$ a month to use facebook. I am 30 years old and make $600 a day using facebook. Use your privacy settings if u have problems people.

Well aren't you special, username53?? I do all those things too.....I tend to my real garden, socialize with real people, send real cards and flowers. Did I forget to mention that 95% of the friends on my Facebook are adults too? We all enjoy keeping in touch, playing the odd game, catching up with old friends who live far away who we find on Facebook......good luck randomly finding old friends any other way than on Facebook....but we also have real lives that we live the 95% of the time we are not on a computer. IT'S ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE.....plain and simple. You like TV, I live the internet.....who is the one who gets to decide what is useless and what isn't???? Certainly not anyone here.....

Well aren't you special, username53?? I do all those things too.....I tend to my real garden, socialize with real people, send real cards and flowers. Did I forget to mention that 95% of the friends on my Facebook are adults too? We all enjoy keeping in touch, playing the odd game, catching up with old friends who live far away who we find on Facebook......good luck randomly finding old friends any other way than on Facebook....but we also have real lives that we live the 95% of the time we are not on a computer. IT'S ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE.....plain and simple. You like TV, I like the internet.....who is the one who gets to decide what is useless and what isn't???? Certainly not anyone here.....

Well at first I found it to be annoying, adolescent site. For kids only. But I was going through my husband having cancer and passing away. I didn't have time for pettyness and childishness. Now that I'm alone I enjoy keeping in touch with friends and distant relatives who I would otherwise not hear from or see their families either. It has been a bright spot in my life.

Facebook and other social networking sites are not the problem...its the people on them that are the problem. Facebook doesn't create stalkers and cheaters because these people would be doing these acts with or without facebook.Be careful who you call "friend" because not everyone that smiles with you is necessarily your friend. It's up to us as individuals to be wise with how we use technology and who we let have access to our lives/family.

For me Facebook isn't about reconnecting - though it's a tidy little rolodex for that. It's also a simple platform for organizing events and such.
Dave - you and many others have found how great it is to build a following. Meanwhile, several of you have used it to recconnect with others after several years.
It seems to me FB is different things to different people.
I don't blame Vik for throwing in the towel - how long did you have it before deleting the account?
Joe - how is it making you money? Are you a biz that has sold more product thanks to FB ads?

Fakebook is full of phony people. I don't need hundreds or thousands of 'friends' when I have a handful of quality friends who'd stand by me through thick and thin. In my opinion Fakebook is a voyeuristic experience best left to those individuals out there who've overestimated their importance via grandstanding their many exploits. It reminds me of a high school reunion where everyone is bragging about themselves. As someone said here just pick up the phone or write. You don't need to be in constant contact with your friends. The only real use of Fakebook, for me, is to use it to generate business.

I heard ur account is still on fb even after u delete it..along with your photos.. =S
I've also seen an ad of me and my friends on another website like ebaumworld or whatever..our profile pics were on the ads... >=(
it said "Tweedle-Dee can see Tweedle-Dumb Naked" No Joke..This actually happened i thought i would change our names just to hide our identity

of course it has...I keep all my privacy settings to max on my fb acct and do not have where I live on it but I was being harassed and flamed by 2 people in particular in one of the political groups I was a member of. I commented on a blog not knowing that it was 'owned' by a friend of theirs. He posted afterwards that he had access to commenters IP addresses and the next day they outed my location in that group.
WARNING: do not comment on blogs unless you can trust who owns it....they will help people stalk you. I am being stalk by an ex in real life so orig. used an alias account but the same people reported that to fb...and they have admitted to multiple accounts themselves. Real bastards.

i dont understand why u guys wud put an arguement about facebook, we all know it is not private and anyone can hack in its pretty simple:like hotmail anyone can hack in n get all ur info too.The real thing is up to ones self if you want facebook keep n knw how ur privacy seeting r put in place and if you dont want it DELETE IT OR DEACTIVATE IT!
thanks

Those guys at facebook really have a good scam going. First create a free to use social network application, market the product in such a way that you are ostricized socially if you don't have an account & are a user then make millions selling the personal information in various forms collected from its free subscribers. Facebook is for suckers & they get what they deserve DON"T BE USED LIKE THIS. DELETE YOURSELF.