Has facebook gone too far?

Hi guys,

I have been a Facebook user for about five years now. I always felt it was excellent for keeping in touch with friends. I find now they have introduced too many things that are a bit too intrusive. One example is allowing people to see who has viewed their profile. Another is seeing what music people are listening to on Spotify if you forget to turn privacy off.

Does anyone else feel the same?

Thanks James

 

What you have to remember is that there are many different types of people using FB in many different ways.
I use it to keep in touch with old friends but I have friends who broadcast their entire lives on it with pictures of their kids first day at school & even first time they used the potty.

I think FB is there for everyone & you just need to set your privacy to the level of user you want to be!

 

That's a fair point. In a way Facebook should offer something to everyone at varying levels of privacy. I guess if you are that sensitive about any type of intrusion then don't use Facebook at all

 

I only use FB for promoting my own websites and nothing else not really worried about the privacy issues either as all the details for my account are far from the trueth,only had my account 2 years and never do any social side of it as i cannot stand it.

 

I couldn't agree more. I also use Facebook for SEO purposes - for this it is really useful. Unfortunately for my own personal account due to what I think is a privacy invasion that has slowly crept up over time, I have become totally disenchanted.

 

Hence this is the reason they dont have any single bit of true information on me,it was odds on favourite that this would happen at some stage and with the amount of information that they hold on file of all the members some would become 3rd party for a financial gain to FB.

 

Well they will need to make a lot of financial gain if the stock price is not to fall further!

 

I agree! I don't really use it that much personally anymore. People share way to much and it's a bit off putting!

 

Absolutely. It's only going to get worse.

 

I recently had to check my 'allowed' applications, one of them was using my email contacts ( via facebook ) and spamming them min 10 times a day, admitidly it was my own fault, i should of checked what it allowed, but still facebook allow this?

 

These allowed "applications" have to be treated with the upmost care. The problem is everything seems to be hidden away and hard to find.

 

From the start Facebook has refined and grown to a good level and still there are many innovations will happen, it has revolutionized the way social setup use to be sometime back say 10 years ago.

 

I don't disagree with that, I just find it difficult that certain elements of Facebook relating to privacy now sail a little bit too close to the win for my liking as mentioned above.

 

Obviously ,and I pray to GOD ,
long live facebook.

 

There are actually privacy options that you can use on Facebook if you don't want to share information with the public. =) Just don't forget to use this.