NEWS: MoveOn.org Launches Anti-Facebook Campaign

Reviews I made on Yelp.com showed up on my FB feed without my consent. On the one hand, I thought it was pretty cool, on the other, yeah, ask first.

Indeed. But he doesn't respond to reason, so I figured I might try overblown sarcasm, cut with reflex-triggers.

Hmm, a bold hypothesis. Well, we shall see the results.

I tend to think that optional site features that aren't a direct and integral part of a site's primary function should be opt-in, not opt-out.

should we be mad at facebook or their "third party partner sites"? i'm asking this because facebook has been eating away at their users privacy under the guise of "exciting new developments" since it's inception (which is significant and ironic only because they got those members to join by seeming to be more private than other social networks).

remember when they added the feed in the first place? and we wondered why everyone in our networks (meaning school, town & job) could suddenly see us making awkward passes at the chick we met at the bar last night. or when they opened up the system to the world (read: advertisers) and you started getting random sketchy friend requests and spam for the first time. hell, if you where there when it was just a little club for ivy league students then you may have been pissed off when they started adding any school with an email system to the network. and then there's the latest scam, where they offer those "experience enhancing" applications but only if you "allow them to access your personal information."

truth is if we didn't expect some b.s. like this out of them then we should of and yes it's our fault for tolerating it.

what i don't expect is fucking amazon.com to report my purchases or any other site activity to another site without my consent.

so, yeah. no more facebook for me.

or just don't have a facebook account. that approach has worked just fine for me.

maybe i'm out of the loop...is myspace the new friendster? when was there the big mass-exodus from myspace toward facebook? why has facebook been getting so much press lately (other than this)? it was less than a year ago i knew ONE not-that-cool person with a facebook account (and she was kinda snooty about it if i recall...god knows why), now it's all over the place. i'm not trying to sound myspace product-loyal or anything (i couldn't care less either way), i guess i just didn't get the memo. i'm sooooooooo early 2007!!!

Stuff like this makes me glad that I have never been anywhere near Facebook.