Moving closer to a non-Facebook life
My lovely wife might disagree, but I’ve been on Facebook for a while – since you had to petition to have your non-.edu account opened up to it (she’s been on since, like, day 2). At one point I completely destroyed my FB account over drama and “friends” and whatever. Now I’m just getting more and more concerned with privacy and how much Facebook seems to be willing to erode what little of it we have left. From hard-to-understand privacy settings to the latest:
Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, “including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests” will now be transformed into “connections,” meaning that they will be shared publicly. If you don’t want these parts of your profile to be made public, your only option is to delete them.
So I’ve now deleted all that info from my profile. But I’m getting that uneasy feeling that Facebook is becoming more of a worry as far as my privacy is concerned vs. how much I get out of it. The consideration of deleting my account continues, I guess.
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