FYIJSYK: Facebook Privacy Update…
Look at this: two FYI-just-so-you-know posts within the span of a week. That is certainly a record. It’s for good reason though.
Facebook announced the other day that they are changing some aspects of Facebook – “Share on Facebook” is giving way to “Like on Facebook”, further integration between third party sites like CNN will be implemented, and your privacy on Facebook is becoming even less important than it already is.
Mark Zuckerberg spoke about this at the Facebook conference called F8. To read about the stuff that he unveiled, you can check out this PC World article which gives a very similar voice to my concerns.
Here is my main thought though: When I post on Twitter, everything I post there is going to be publicly seen. I know that and so I’m cautious about what ends up there. With Facebook, I post things there and I expect a level of privacy. Why? Because I specifically went in and adjusted my privacy settings to my preferences. Too bad that during a redesign, Facebook decided to make me re-opt into my privacy settings, but actually changed them all to be much more revealing than my originally chosen settings.
As a result of my concerns, I posted a message on Facebook asking if anyone would miss me if I closed my Facebook account and nobody responded. I probably won’t go as far as to close it, but I certainly am considering removing a good portion of the information I put there. Additionally, I am removing any applications I have loaded and will continue to monitor my privacy settings.
Facebook has destroyed a large portion of the trust I had built up with them when it was just my friends and those in my closed network (college, city) that could access my information. Now it feels like it is going to be the whole world.
Have you re-evaluated your privacy settings in Facebook? How do you feel about Facebook integrating into the rest of your online world? Let me know in the comments.
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