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You're fear mongering. Facebook has certainly had its issues in the past but recently they've been very transparent about what they are doing with your personal data. To the point where the CPO has been doing a road show taking questions and asking for feedback[1]. You might not like what they do but there are no secrets.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/facebook-privacy-policy-cha...



I disagree. It is still very, very easy to accidentally share something you don't want to be shared on Facebook. That is intentional.


Why would that be intentional? What possible motivation does Facebook have for wanting you to accidentally reshare something?

Further, I don't even understand the accusation. You have to click "Share" on a post to share it, and even then, there's an additional, quite explicit confirmation required.


Because each additional story shared add contents to your friends feed ? And some things you don't want to share are the one that would interest your friends the most.

("friends" in the Facebook sense, of course).

And you don't have to click to share. You just have to do something in one apps linked somehow to your facebook account. Or leave a comment on a third party site. Or..

Yes, you can be attentive to all these, but that's not what I would call easy for everyone.


It would be intentional because more shares = more traffic = more money for Facebook. Longer term, it means less expectation of privacy and even more opportunities to publish even more stuff to more people. Zuckerberg has pretty much explicitly stated that this is the goal.

And those explicit confirmations contain so much noise that it's often quite difficult to tell what you're confirming.




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