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1 otoc  Mon, Jan 17, 2011 11:19:59am

As I was writing that post, a slew of tech blogs were posting similar news. But I still haven't seen any that point out the need to make edits to your personal information settings that visitors and friends see.

And to clarify what my issue is because I've never placed my physical address or cell phone number in my account info. My email addresses that I use for Facebook notification were made public to anyone I might have friended.

And then there's the obvious concern as to this new developer add on that allows the possible access to any private info that may be in an account setting. If the pop up permission window works fine, then you have control over that release. If there's a programming issue then you might not see it. And then there are the hackers searching for ways to get access to readily available info.

2 What, me worry?  Mon, Jan 17, 2011 8:48:07pm

I think I'm looking where you noted (it's not all that user friendly to set your settings on FB), and all those options were already listed. I set that whole category to "Only me" since the beginning, I'm pretty sure. I've been on maybe a year or so. I just went back and looked and they're still there marked "Only me".

What I did notice, which was odd, the things above that category, "Things I share" and "Things Others Share" looked to be different. There was a lot of stuff set to "Everyone" and I don't recall doing that. I keep my privacy pretty tight as well.

For what it's worth :)

3 otoc  Tue, Jan 18, 2011 3:41:17am

Appreciate the response. I wasn't sure at the time of my post.

Yes, FB settings are on the same level as all the SEC and investment news for the company of late. Even googling the email settings only brought a lot of static on the general issue of privacy. It seems I overlooked those particular settings over time if you found a different result. Again, my thanks.

I had a little more time to check and found a link that showed the general email setting has been around since 2009 or earlier. Since then many changes to the privacy setting format have been made. So whoops on my part, but that last rant did feel good.

The "things I share" change hit last April (with a lot of negative press) and changes were announced in October in relation to a Groups feature.

This is one product that requires an electronic user guide with FB emailing users of any change as they occur.

To that note, the original point of my post, the issue of sharing contact information vis FB apps has been put on hold as of 2:25AM this morning according to the developer blog...

Improvements to Permissions for Address and Mobile Number

On Friday, we expanded the information you are able to share with external websites and applications to include your address and mobile number. With this change, you could, for example, easily share your address and mobile phone with a shopping site to streamline the checkout process, or sign up for up-to-the-minute alerts on special deals directly to your mobile phone.

As with the other information you share through our permissions process, you need to explicitly choose to share this data before any application or website can access it, and you can not share your friends’ address or mobile number with applications. Also, like other data you make available to third party apps and websites, you can always clearly see and control the ways your information is being used in the Application Dashboard.

Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data. We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so. We’ll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready. We look forward to re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks.

4 What, me worry?  Tue, Jan 18, 2011 7:49:18am

re: #3 otoc

Appreciate the response. I wasn't sure at the time of my post.

Yes, FB settings are on the same level as all the SEC and investment news for the company of late. Even googling the email settings only brought a lot of static on the general issue of privacy. It seems I overlooked those particular settings over time if you found a different result. Again, my thanks.

I had a little more time to check and found a link that showed the general email setting has been around since 2009 or earlier. Since then many changes to the privacy setting format have been made. So whoops on my part, but that last rant did feel good.

The "things I share" change hit last April (with a lot of negative press) and changes were announced in October in relation to a Groups feature.

This is one product that requires an electronic user guide with FB emailing users of any change as they occur.

To that note, the original point of my post, the issue of sharing contact information vis FB apps has been put on hold as of 2:25AM this morning according to the developer blog...

Improvements to Permissions for Address and Mobile Number

hehe Ranting can be a good thing!

It makes sense now that they changed the "things I share" feature somewhat more recently. I don't like my friend list available to the public, but they changed that without my permission. I had to lock it back down. That pissed me off.

My husband and I resisted FB for a long time, but when practically our entirely family went on, and we're all over the U.S., it became the easiest way to stay in touch, share pics, videos, play games, etc.

The only question I have about sharing info with the apps, how does it work if you're already signed up or utilizing the app? My guess is that the default has been changed to share the information automatically.

Also, like other data you make available to third party apps and websites, you can always clearly see and control the ways your information is being used in the Application Dashboard.

Well thank you for changing it first and then making me go back and redo it!

I can beat that system too. I don't have any number listed and my address is a bogus throwaway that I never use. I also never, ever purchase anything from FB so no credit card info there.


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