Quoting djs <djsteinhafel at gmail.com>: >> We can see the value in the free-to-us service provided by Facebook, >> but the cost is hidden. It's hidden well enough that I, an >> inveterate Facebooker, don't know what it is. Will I be sorry >> someday? What is going to happen to me? I see the advertisements >> and I guess that's part of the price I'm paying, but that doesn't >> bother me. Should it? It's like that with Google, too. >> >> I'm not poo-pooing the privacy issue. I really don't see what can go >> wrong for me, so I'm asking. > > The Facebook service collects thousands of pages of information about > each of her users. This blog post explains 22 privacy concerns from the > perspective of Irish law: www.identityblog.com/?p=1201 > > The main concerns, as I see the situation, is that Facebook tracks every > website you go to that has Facebook like/dislike buttons on it, even if > you don't click the buttons, using web cookies iirc. Also, all site > changes (privacy settings) opt-in users, so their account's privacy > settings change even if they haven't logged in due to being out of town > or similar. And that they never delete information even after you ask > them to, they only hide it from you. Like said in the video, "No KGB or > CIA ever had 1200 pages about an average citizen." (They do now.) > > As far as I can tell, Facebook doesn't provide a service that can't > be recreated relatively easily by someone with web programming skills. > Public and private messaging, image uploads, groups, event rsvp... > most of the other "features" (face recognition, facebook apps/games) > look like bloat to me and may even be considered detrimental to > usability and user/site efficiency/performance. > > I had used Facebook in 2005-2009 but deleted the account I am sure you know this, but there is no such thing as *deleting* your facebook account. I too went back and forth between canceling my account and signing back in as nothing happened, which is quite a nice *feature* that facebook provides. I guess it's just a matter of how much you really value your online privacy, and civil rights at that. > site no longer reflected the service and terms I signed up for and > agreed to. They probably have at least half a thousand pages on me. > I'm curious to know why they are keeping it and what is going to > happen with it in a year, five years, twenty years... > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.