Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 29, 2010 @02:07AM from the can't-win-for-losing dept.

nk497 writes "Facebook has added a new tool that brings together conversations and photos between friends onto a single page, but — as usual — has crossed the creepy line. Not only does clicking the See Friendship tool let users view photos, comments and events shared between themselves and their friend, it also offers a search tool to do the same between any two mutual friends, making it easy to see everything any two people have ever said to each other Facebook. As usual, the site should have tested the function out on their users first, with one saying: 'I've always wanted this! And yes, I'm a creepy stalker.' Also, as usual for Facebook, all users are automatically opted in, and there's currently no obvious way to turn it off."

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Re:Solution by slim · 2010-10-29 02:32 · Score: 3, Interesting

Delete your Facebook account like I did.
... or you could keep it, and not post anything you consider private on it.
Re:If people seem stalkerish.. by slim · 2010-10-29 02:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

But I also have a lot of not-so-close friends, acquaintances, people I'm friendly with. Whatever you want to call it, there are degrees of friendship. And Facebook doesn't recognize that.
Yeah it does, if you can be bothered with the admin.
You can create groups, and categorise your contacts into them. Then you can specify how much of your profile and your activity can be seen by each group.
I have a "limited profile" group, into which I place people who ask to be a "friend", when I feel it would be rude to ignore them, but don't really want them to see everything.
You can also choose to prevent friends-of-friends from seeing your stuff.
At worst, the defaults are possibly a bit too open.