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How have you reacted to Facebook's controversial changes to their privacy settings?

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    • QuickMan on Sat 01 May 2010
    • 04:29:18 PM UTC

    One more time,

    If it's changes again like that, i'll delete my account. but I can take it as long as I can.

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      • traveler818 on Fri 11 Jun 2010
      • 01:59:31 AM UTC

      Facebook

      How do you delete a Facebook account? I never even signed up for one: they signed me up, after accessing my email account without my permission. I don't trust them at all. I tried 4 times to tell my whole Facebook story to Fox news, and it always got deleted toward the end: there was no profanity, insults, no legal reason to keep deleting my posts. I logged in to try to delete my Facebook account. After that, my computer barely ran at all. HELP!

      Be kind--give a smile, lend a hand.

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    • Jazspeak on Sat 01 May 2010
    • 04:35:47 PM UTC

    Other

    Since I have never had a Facebook account, and have no intention of getting one, I couldn't give a monkey's what they do. Facebook has been a hacker's and spammer's paradise for many years, and I have previously rated Facebook as such. The latest controversy only reinforces my opinion about that site.

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      • macxtc on Wed 05 May 2010
      • 05:37:03 AM UTC

      facebook changes

      I fully understand and agree with your statement...

      unfortunately I have hard to reach family and friends that require me to keep an account

      open with FB... but I shut down almost all the features... and monitor my account as

      needed then direct any family and friends to contact me outside of FB...

      besides that, if I get another invite to one more of those stupid games I'll @#$%!!!

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        • Coda on Wed 05 May 2010
        • 10:53:55 AM UTC

        facebook

        There's something called Facebook Lite. It's the social part of facebook minus all the fluff and puff (including the games). Have you tried that? Maybe you won't be getting game invites there. I play the games so I've never tried it, but I figure it was worth a mention to you.

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          • Jazspeak on Thu 06 May 2010
          • 08:01:07 PM UTC

          Facebook Lite

          Isn't that where they just nick your personal details without giving anything in return?

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    • Warxas on Sat 01 May 2010
    • 06:12:22 PM UTC

    Other for me too

    I never have, and never will have a Facebook. Their privacy policy has always been ridiculous, this is just one more strike against them.

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    • IssViews on Sat 01 May 2010
    • 09:32:13 PM UTC

    Never had a Facebook account

    Never had a Facebook account and never will bother with it as it is nothing more than an open book, for all to see, on your personal life.

    Beware facebook users, hackers, ID fraudsters and other malicious users are no longer your only concern. Facebook can be added to this by sharing your personal info with every tom, dick and harry.

    www.issviews.com for views and news of the starte of digital security. Add your comments/.feedback on your existing security software to help others choose what's right for them and what isn't. Read up on the latest rogue software and threats too.

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      • Aelfwine on Thu 03 Jun 2010
      • 07:01:29 PM UTC

      Ditto

      Hear hear! They might lure you in with their promises and the "everyone's on Facebook" idea, but just remember: all the lemmings jumped off the cliff, too.

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    • Quibb on Sun 02 May 2010
    • 06:57:03 AM UTC

    Who cares?

    I really don't see this as a big deal, not something I'd freak out over or deactivate my account over. Anyone who would do that is blowing this way out of proportion.

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    • The Big Bin on Sun 02 May 2010
    • 08:52:41 AM UTC

    -

    It's been turned off for me by default. Is that supposed to be like that?

    --
    Per aspera ad astra

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    • AklyonX8 on Mon 03 May 2010
    • 03:07:28 AM UTC

    More the reason to stay away from social networking sites.

    They seem good to everyone, but only because not everyone cares to remember the privacy rule: If you blab your personal data in public, it'll get stolen eventually.

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    • petersohn on Mon 03 May 2010
    • 04:43:57 PM UTC

    I don't use it

    I don't have a Facebook account, so I don't care.

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    • glenyz on Tue 04 May 2010
    • 01:03:26 AM UTC

    facebook

    all my personal info, i try to view some of my friends..
    hehehe

    you will trust

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    • Dan 75410 on Wed 05 May 2010
    • 12:21:42 PM UTC

    Facebook

    I just disable all the information sharing and yes Facebook I don't need your so-called enhanced experience. I think it is very important for people now to be extra careful with their information. Remember, anything that you publicly post on the Internet becomes known to everyone. I just give basic details along with a fake birth date that I don't show. I use a picture of my cat and then just general pictures. I see it as it is available to all the world to see so don't put anything on your profile that you don't want the world to see. Finally, remember Face-book keeps your records even though you delete them.

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    • Anonymous on Wed 05 May 2010
    • 03:38:22 PM UTC

    Facebook

    Never had it and never will.

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    • phantazm on Fri 07 May 2010
    • 12:09:19 PM UTC

    Facebook and Privacy are opposite poles

    When Facebook changes, it's usually for the worse. And they don't even have to tell you, as they have the right to change TOS, without informing users. Sometimes users notice it nevertheless and a major uproar follows, and then FB rolls their new "feature" back, at least for a while. Do worry, they'll try again next year...

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    • Komoda on Wed 12 May 2010
    • 10:34:31 PM UTC

    Won't ever get Facebook

    I was going to until I heard about the privacy issues and now I'm not going to get it

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    • evilfantasy on Fri 14 May 2010
    • 08:37:40 PM UTC

    Facebook, we have a problem

    Privacy: Facebook, we have a problem

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    • ziqewx on Thu 10 Jun 2010
    • 02:14:06 PM UTC

    Facebook?

    Have never used facebook, not that interested... however one of my friends recently created a profile for me and after some "research" i have understood that it is actually a very useful tool if used in a good way.

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    • Brutux on Fri 11 Jun 2010
    • 11:35:37 PM UTC

    Facebook "P0wn3d company"

    I never used !!!

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    • -Saad- on Sat 19 Jun 2010
    • 06:24:46 AM UTC

    I never really cared much

    I never really cared much for facebook. Signed up in something like 2007, though haven't made any changes to it since shortly after that, so these don't really affect me much.

    From what I heard that was a good decision on my part, as a lot of facebook updates have been incredibly degenerative, apparently.

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    • Armored on Mon 19 Jul 2010
    • 06:46:48 AM UTC

    Don't care

    Because I don't use the rubbish.

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    • jocatspaw on Mon 19 Jul 2010
    • 09:13:01 AM UTC

    with numerous friends all

    with numerous friends all over the country and in foreign lands and not the time to email them all individually and still have a life and work but a strong desire to keep in touch i use facebook a lot. I've had support for all kinds of issues from networking on there and have got work. if you're happy to network for work or socially on the internet it's as good a route as any . it's all customisable, if you've had the sense to set up your privacy sensibly in the first place when there's an update and everyone gets their iKnickers in a twist you can generally quickly check and find your info is still about as secure as before. you don't put anything that would be disastrous if it got out on there of course, in the same way you don't email your mate slagging off your boss, and saying how you shagged her husband, because you might accidentally send it to the whole office :)
    i also go on the basis of blocking most games individually, blocking people I distrust, only friending people I know in person, limiting everything to only be seen by friends, all those kind of things.
    really.

    there are so many panics and scares about what fcebook is going to do (along with the "join this group to cheat at your game" or "join this group to see this funny video") which are clearly blatant address harvesting sites that I am starting to think that actually encouraging those with a chicken-licken/daily-mail response to quit facebook is a good idea since it'll leave us with less panic-spam and a facebook populated by people who have the sense not to click on those harvesters, and thus the harvesters, unfed and unpropogated will die out.

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    • Kreuzberg-Jakob on Fri 10 Sep 2010
    • 04:31:55 PM UTC

    Social Sites

    - are for getting contact with people. To hide any private content is ridiculous. If I don't want, that any spy can find it, I don't put it in the web! All of my site is completely public besides my friends. Who hides his personality on a social site may be a
    spammer
    spy
    spinner
    stalker
    scum
    Schäuble

    It is the base of a social site, to introduce you, to meet people with similar interests - or you have the possibility to look for different people - Facebook makes it possible! Who is afraid to be seen by anyone, should not join a social site! Although burqas will be banned soon everywhere, you will find other places to hide!
    :-D
    If I zapp through my TV progs - I will find at the most times any station, that warns to use Facebook! Why?
    Why don't these masters of world wide opinion warn to take credit, put chemical sweeteners in your coffee or vote for war criminals as a president?
    Because social sites are a trace of democracy and you can then exchange informations, which the media groups never will share. You can collect signatures and send it to the so-called leaders of the free world. And they can not ignore it, because there are many thousands of witnesses! It is he last place, where can be changed - or at least braked some social and political decline!
    You can get in touch with people from different cultures and different social systems. You can hear first hand how they assess their situation. And what they think about the actions of Western nations, what their media tells them and you will notice, that all humans are brothers.
    You can gain vast knowledge and you will get an image of life on earth - beyond your local town sign.
    You must be warned! This is dangerous!
    For those who try to share hate and misunderstanding it is a disaster.
    People who are willing to operate online banking, deleted their Facebook account, because the media companies have recommended it to them!
    What terrible secrets did you offer to the public before you deleted your account? What are you afraid on Facebook?
    That anyone realizes that you are frightened?
    They know this already - be sure!

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    • Dark Reo on Tue 21 Sep 2010
    • 08:30:52 AM UTC

    Even though I have a

    Even though I have a facebook account, but I'm not interested by it at all and not using it.(I just like to create an account whenever I found a safe site doesn't have my account)
    Somewhat I really don't understand why did most of the people in my country are being like a facebook maniac? All of them was like keep asking me the same question "did you have a facebook account?" rather than asking for e-mail address...and these question had been repeated by many of them, it made me sick to keep hearing the same thing again and again.
    and I have been seeing most of the facebook user are being.....(I don't know how to explain it)

  22. I made no changes and don't really care. From day one I assumed everything I put on there was public and it is treated as such so I don't concern myself with anything they (FB) do on the back-end.

    Rick Shepherd President Synux Technologies www.synux.com

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    • Da Bozz on Sun 13 Mar 2011
    • 05:22:22 PM UTC

    RE: How have you reacted to Facebook's controversial changes to

    I don't use stupid Facebook so it doesn't interest me very much ...

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