Don't be so quick to blame the end user. It's not always obvious when you're adding personal information to facebook.
Case in point: Using the facebook app on an iPhone (unsure about other smart phones) automatically adds your phone number to your personal details. And woe unto those who use "Contact sync", facebook will not only update your personal details with your phone number. It will also take all the phone numbers of your friends and family and upload those
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You can see this for yourself. Go to: Account -> Edit friends -> Phonebook.
There was a minor furor when this first came out and everyone appears to have forgotten it.
It is an issue for some users, myself included. The problem gets worse as you start to work with larger or multiple screens. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a setting you could adjust, but as it stands you have to rely on third party software.
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I'm sorry my opinion on what qualifies as interesting is different from yours.
I thought these flying robot drones posted today, were pretty neat.
Of course not all of it suits my tastes, but then, neither do all slashdot articles. And while I disagree with Xeni's review of the iPad, it doesn't mean that the whole blog is garbage by association.
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I've found that html tags work quite well.
For example the <p></p> tags work quite well for whitespace.
Of course, paste is broken at the moment so you have to type it all in manually.
Don't be so quick to blame the end user. It's not always obvious when you're adding personal information to facebook.
Case in point: Using the facebook app on an iPhone (unsure about other smart phones) automatically adds your phone number to your personal details. And woe unto those who use "Contact sync", facebook will not only update your personal details with your phone number. It will also take all the phone numbers of your friends and family and upload those
Blogspam with details You can see this for yourself. Go to: Account -> Edit friends -> Phonebook.
There was a minor furor when this first came out and everyone appears to have forgotten it.
It is an issue for some users, myself included. The problem gets worse as you start to work with larger or multiple screens. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a setting you could adjust, but as it stands you have to rely on third party software. Would you like to know more?
I'm sorry my opinion on what qualifies as interesting is different from yours. I thought these flying robot drones posted today, were pretty neat. Of course not all of it suits my tastes, but then, neither do all slashdot articles. And while I disagree with Xeni's review of the iPad, it doesn't mean that the whole blog is garbage by association.
For those who don't know, Cory Doctorow also co-edits BoingBoing, a popular tech/culture group blog that's worth checking out.