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Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool
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."
And if do or say anything that you are ashamed for(or will be ashamed for in some years), you should not have done it in the first place.
And don't forget advertisers already have this information available to make better targeted ads, so this only equals the balance.
Oh, and don't forget thefacebook really cares about what privacy is.
Again Facebook does something unbelievably stupid and further cements my position that I will never, ever sign up with them.
Diaspora and Appleseeds are going about it the wrong way. We don't need a piece of software to get from them in order to social networking to go public. We need a public spec. A whitepaper that describes the input and output the system should have, so anyone can write their own software that conforms to that specification. And submit it to the W3C.
If they want social networking to be more like email, then that's the way it needs to go.
Technoli
meaning what exactly?
that an employer's perception of you might get you fired and this carries huge implications? yeah, i think i can comprehend that concept. do you think you are informing me of something that i am not aware of?
make damn sure the internet carries nothing that might get you fired. and if something is out there about you that might effect your employment, why the bleep didn't you make sure that didn't get out there? it's something you can't control, like a friend photographing you and labelling you in the photo? why don't you try picking your friends more carefully, or situations where you might be photogrpahed more carefully, or having more discretion around a camera?
who is to blame but yourself?
this whole issue is a nonissue, it's the same bs as old as time: avoiding responsibility. "i wish to shift blame about the negative consequences of my behavior onto someone or something else"
no: you are your image. take ownership of it and manage it. because of all the heavy implications you are well aware of. lesson number one: discretion and self-control and choosing your friends and social situations where you let loose wisely
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Hang on, what happened to the Geek's warcry of "Information wants to be free"?
The problem with that phrase is that it only applies to other people's works and property (especially when they are proprietary). Try to apply the "information wants to be free" meme to GPL code and you will see their hypocrisy in action.