By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2011-04-21 04:54:09 | Word Count: 664
No idea WHY Facebook insists on revealing things about me to the world without my knowledge but it is truly starting to get under my skin. I know you may be tired of reading posts like these offering warnings about Facebook™s privacy settings because frankly, I™m tired of writing them but I tell you this"I will write a post about protecting your privacy on Facebook everyday if it means that you won™t be exposed without consent. Listen, Facebook, stop it. I™m almost fed up with this whole thing. It™s sneaky and underhanded and I™m sure that most Facebook users will agree that this is not by any means what we signed up for.
Privacy or exposure on Facebook should be to the user™s discretion. If you want your Facebook page to be exposed to the world, accessed by a mere Google search then by all means, do that. I™ll even give Facebook the benefit of the doubt and suggest that when users sign up everything about them can be as public as Facebook wants it to be until the user states otherwise. It is when the user does, indeed, state otherwise but Facebook insist on finding loopholes in that statement of privacy in order to find a way to reveal something or the other about that user that things get offensive.
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You™re a big fish, Facebook. There™s no doubt about that, you™re running things in the social arena, it™s true. It™s also may be true that me ranting on this blog, screaming from my tiny little crevice on the internet likely doesn™t shake you one bit. You don™t even notice I™m here. If you do, by some miracle, come across this blog I ask that you cease and desist!
Excuse me, I haven™t even gotten to the premise of my rage yet. It all started this afternoon when I began reading up on recent technological happenings. Low and behold there™s a Facebook post discussing the lack of privacy on the social network. I click this post with all belief that I™d heard it all before only to discover that I hadn™t. Facebook added more ways to get to me!
I read the first line of this post and immediately log into by Facebook page to make sure the coast was clear"it was not! To my surprise I discover that an “Include me in ‘People Here Now™ after I check in” feature had enabled on my behalf. Uh…thanks, Facebook, but NO THANKS! If I wanted someone to know that I was logged in I™d perhaps open my chat box and tell them. Try not to do me any favors, please, I can handle it.
But wait, that™s not it. This ‘People Here Now™ discrepancy encouraged me to further investigate. I then went on to discover that my profile pictures had been made public. No, again, Facebook"I thought I made that clear before.
These two violations of my privacy are two too many, in my opinion. I may be a tiny little fish in your eyes Facebook, but what happens when a bigger fish notices what you™re doing and bites back? Keep it up, I smell a lawsuit. This is a warning"users, check your privacy settings regularly as there is some fishy activity going on. Facebook, take it easy, I got my eye on you.
