User: DanTheCanadian

This story is such a load of Horses#@t

On: Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers

First, I am totally in favor of keeping my info that I've added to FB under the same privacy controls I used when I setup my profile. Unlike what most of the print/television media has reported, users aren't storing their SIN number's or credit card info within their Facebook profile, and I would hope as a user you wouldn't list your full proper home address on your FB profile page. So really what type of info could someone seriously gather from your profile (on a public website) if everything you had listed on there today was made public? The reason for my subject title, is it seems whenever its a slow news day the media will simply start a new defamatory story about some aspect of the FB privacy controls. Also, please try and remember that just like browsing the web, you dont simply just click on any pop up that comes your way. Why should adding applications to your FB page be any different? The "rogue applications mentioned in the article sound somewhat ominous, and one hopes users are somewhat intelligent and stick with the more well known and more mainstream applications (farmville/cityville/etc) when selecting which applications to add to their profile