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How bad is Facebook privacy? There's now an app to search your status updates.
OpenBook's suggested searches include "cheated test," "playing hooky," "rectal exam" (ew) and and "lost virginity." You might say, "Well, if you think it's appropriate to share things like that on Facebook, you're stupid anyway." And you might be right, but there's a big difference between what's okay to share with your friends and what's okay to share with the entire web. OpenBook just shows that a whole lot of people might be sharing publicly without realizing it.
Know your Facebook privacy options, and thinking about locking your account down a bit, if you haven't already.
[via Techcrunch Europe]
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Subscribe to commentsSevenmackMay 15th 2010 4:01PM
The best solution to Facebook is get off Facebook. Buy a BlackBerry, sign up for BlackBerry Messenger. Get your friends to do the same. You can do multiple chats and also have it secured and locked down. Simple enough.
Frankly, I'm surprised RIM isn't exploiting that advantage. And I'm surprised Apple hasn't come up with a similar system for iPhone (since, like RIM, it pipes e-mail through its own servers instead of through the carrier).
kojo87May 16th 2010 4:21PM
as ideal as that would be its pretty unrealistic to make all your friends get BlackBerries. i think i 2 people in my BBM contacts.
i've been wondering why Apple doesn't have something similar to BBM as well. it would make so much sense. Jobs probably has his (lunatic) reasons i suppose.
mvpMay 15th 2010 5:17PM
While I never understood why anyone would post anything embarrassing in the first place, who's to care if their status's appear on this search? Odds are you will never find anyone you know as well as no one you know will ever find you, so what's the big deal? It's like being on vacation across the globe, as long as you don't intend to impress anyone, who cares how you act. It's not like you'll ever run into them again.
DrakkenfyreMay 16th 2010 10:38AM
And it's attitudes like that, once you leave, that make the residence of that country think your country sucks if you acted like an ass while you were there.
mvpMay 16th 2010 2:27PM
I never said anything about a negative attitude.
fmacMay 15th 2010 6:21PM
While this is awful, you can also avoid it.
This people choose to make public their wall posts, etc. You can change that in your privacy settings... not a big deal really.
riangifariMay 15th 2010 7:51PM
what with the facebook paranoid nowadays, DLS?
JoshMay 15th 2010 11:21PM
It's not just DLS. Go on Digg for more than 2 minutes and see what you come across. The entire internet is up in arms over Facebook, especially the Zuckerberg chat at the moment.
burnblueMay 16th 2010 11:53AM
This is dumb because the Search box on Facebook does the very same thing (when you click 'Posts by Everyone'.. meaning this site is unnecessary). As for the 'open by default' I don't get it.. when Facebook introduced granular post privacy they brought you to a privacy settings page to review, and I don't remember 'Everyone' being the default for statuses
theremoverMay 16th 2010 12:24AM
Has anyone noticed that if they visit the imageshack website whilst logged into facebook, imageshack somehow knows you're logged into facebook and your account is tied into their website without you ever putting your info into it?
F***ing scary, I was so pissed when I saw that. Considering deleting my account pronto.
mahMay 17th 2010 1:32AM
You've just started using a computer, huh? What exactly do you think seems to be the privacy implication here?
shadoMay 16th 2010 4:04PM
....What? You mean the PUBLIC can see my PUBLIC status updates?
Dear god, I thought PUBLIC meant "Nobody but me can see it"!!!
DarkeSwordMay 17th 2010 10:07AM
Making something public isn't bad privacy.
cantuburyMay 18th 2010 5:02PM
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