Comments on: Fear and loathing and Facebook

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:30:32 +0000

Well, not quite whether they want you to or not: Openbook does obey the privacy settings. The eople you can see in there have (foolishly) made their posts open to everyone, though they (reasonably) weren’t expecting anything like Openbook to exploit that.

I think Facebook’s really good, as long as you remember who you’re dealing with. I’m quite happy to stay on there and not put any personal details up there that I don’t want publicised and leave most of my settings on maximum privacy. They’re like Ikea: great product, but you can only buy it from utter bastards. But it is still a great product. I much prefer its messaging app to standard email.

By: Professor Batty

Professor Batty — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:07:26 +0000

And then there’s Openbook:

http://youropenbook.org/

where you can look at anyone’s FB posting via keyword(s), whether they want you to or not.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:27:39 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up.

By: Sjoerd de Haan

Sjoerd de Haan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:18:53 +0000

Well said, except the e-mailing your friends part. Facebook does this only for people who are not paying attention. There is a button on the ‘these people are not on facebook yet’ page to skip it.

I do agree with you on the fact that its rediculous it keeps asking to email everyone and its even worse that it selects the entire list.