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Facebook and (lack of!)privacy!; Re-set your privacy settings now!
Topic Started: Dec 10 2009, 02:54 PM (112 Views)
firth
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Yesterday Facebook automatically re-set privacy settings to allow nearly everyone to see nearly everything about you unless you specify otherwise, i.e. total exposure as default setting, regardless of what your privacy settings were before - I had to re-set everything.

I am seething! stoatnuT RulEZ1 5ma3hc0mpl

Article about it here:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/54381/

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Just had a look and went through all the privacy setting with a fine toothcomb. Outrageous at the amount of stuff that all of a sudden had been put in the public domain and pictures all of a sudden available to friends of friends too? I don't think so!!! :twist :twist
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muin
I don't do Facebook. I think you have to excercise caution with all these types of pages. Never put anything on them that you would not want shown in public or could endanger your privacy or security.
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Laurie
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I agree it was rather wicked of them. And when I went to the "new, improved" privacy page, they had their settings and then a list of "old settings", like they were outdated or expired! They should have defaulted to one's current settings instead of changing them!

True, you do really have to think twice about what you put out there... D0h1z
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Laird willie h
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Now you have me worried . I can't really be bothered with facebook . Get loads and loads of e-mails .
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firth
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Willie, even if you no longer actively use it, go to your account page and look at your privacy settings - you'll see that they have all been re-set to 'public'.
Change them back to 'friends only' (very easy) and you'll be ok.
THEN forget about it! :P
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check your individual photos albums too because I have two 'lists' that I allow to see the family or private photos, the rest are for friends only - and those had changed also, all to show friends of friends.
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Mine hadn't changed......they were still friends only. naegotscoobie
Correction...photos had changed to public, but nothing else.
Edited by kate, Dec 10 2009, 09:05 PM.
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kate
Dec 10 2009, 09:03 PM
Mine hadn't changed......they were still friends only. naegotscoobie
Correction...photos had changed to public, but nothing else.
Same here ....when the pop up page came up this morning I just cancelled and have just been back in and they hadn't changed
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I cancelled the pop up page and when I went to check everything was exactly as it had been. naegotscoobie
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Thanks for that Firth...it's good to be aware of these things anyway...this place is just the best!! flors grouphugging1 grouphugging1 K1ap
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willie h
Dec 10 2009, 07:04 PM
Get loads and loads of e-mails .
But you are a very popular man Willie ;)
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