Comments on: New Facebook Privacy Settings Are Fine as Long as You Read Them http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2009/12/12/new-facebook-privacy-settings/ Just another student of the web Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Thaler http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2009/12/12/new-facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Michael Thaler Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:17:36 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=77#comment-56 It's certainly possible. Another argument I'm reading about now: some people just don't think it's worth the time to bother sorting out how the new system works, and in that respect, Facebook is making an unreasonable time demand on people, and they'd rather just leave the site than figure everything out. Of course, that raises the issue of whether people ever actually follow through on their promises of leaving, especially given how hard Facebook makes it to leave... It's certainly possible. Another argument I'm reading about now: some people just don't think it's worth the time to bother sorting out how the new system works, and in that respect, Facebook is making an unreasonable time demand on people, and they'd rather just leave the site than figure everything out. Of course, that raises the issue of whether people ever actually follow through on their promises of leaving, especially given how hard Facebook makes it to leave…

]]> By: Erica http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2009/12/12/new-facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Erica Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:46:56 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=77#comment-55 Same here. All of my options were defaulted to "Old Settings" as well, with the exception of maybe two items which I'd set to "Everyone" of my own accord previously.<br><br>Doesn't that suggest that maybe the real issue is that a large number of people had their privacy set far more open than they'd realized or intended to? I think this highlights the stupidity of certain Facebook users more than the allegedly evil intentions of the people running the site--as has pretty much every other aesthetic revamp or privacy policy update in the past. Same here. All of my options were defaulted to “Old Settings” as well, with the exception of maybe two items which I'd set to “Everyone” of my own accord previously.

Doesn't that suggest that maybe the real issue is that a large number of people had their privacy set far more open than they'd realized or intended to? I think this highlights the stupidity of certain Facebook users more than the allegedly evil intentions of the people running the site–as has pretty much every other aesthetic revamp or privacy policy update in the past.

]]> By: Michael Thaler http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2009/12/12/new-facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Michael Thaler Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:17:36 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=77#comment-20 It's certainly possible. Another argument I'm reading about now: some people just don't think it's worth the time to bother sorting out how the new system works, and in that respect, Facebook is making an unreasonable time demand on people, and they'd rather just leave the site than figure everything out. Of course, that raises the issue of whether people ever actually follow through on their promises of leaving, especially given how hard Facebook makes it to leave... It's certainly possible. Another argument I'm reading about now: some people just don't think it's worth the time to bother sorting out how the new system works, and in that respect, Facebook is making an unreasonable time demand on people, and they'd rather just leave the site than figure everything out. Of course, that raises the issue of whether people ever actually follow through on their promises of leaving, especially given how hard Facebook makes it to leave…

]]> By: Erica http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2009/12/12/new-facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Erica Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:46:56 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=77#comment-19 Same here. All of my options were defaulted to "Old Settings" as well, with the exception of maybe two items which I'd set to "Everyone" of my own accord previously.<br><br>Doesn't that suggest that maybe the real issue is that a large number of people had their privacy set far more open than they'd realized or intended to? I think this highlights the stupidity of certain Facebook users more than the allegedly evil intentions of the people running the site--as has pretty much every other aesthetic revamp or privacy policy update in the past. Same here. All of my options were defaulted to “Old Settings” as well, with the exception of maybe two items which I'd set to “Everyone” of my own accord previously.

Doesn't that suggest that maybe the real issue is that a large number of people had their privacy set far more open than they'd realized or intended to? I think this highlights the stupidity of certain Facebook users more than the allegedly evil intentions of the people running the site–as has pretty much every other aesthetic revamp or privacy policy update in the past.

]]> By: Sniffnoy http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2009/12/12/new-facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Sniffnoy Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:07:16 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=77#comment-18 I had the interesting case that the only ones it defaulted to "Everyone" on for me were precisely the ones which I had already set to "Everyone"... I had the interesting case that the only ones it defaulted to “Everyone” on for me were precisely the ones which I had already set to “Everyone”…

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