"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

The Facebook fallout just keeps accelerating. At this pace we'll be chasing Zuckerberg out of town with pitchforks and fire by August am i rite.

http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook

Pretty much a javascript that scans your privacy settings.

Here's what's on the website:

This website provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. The source code and its development will always remain open and transparent.

1. Drag this link to your web browser bookmarks bar: Scan for Privacy
2. Log in to facebook.com and then click that bookmark
3. You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.
4. Follow us on Facebook to hear about the latest updates.

I hope zuckerberg gets a horrible disease soon

He'll get his.

http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/08_tradingplaces_bd.jpg

http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/08_tradingplaces_bd.jpg

"Myself and my associates here have a little bet going as to whether you'll tell us everything about yourself, no matter how embarrassing or damaging, in exchange for playing Farmville. Rupert says they'll never go for it. I say they will."

The scanner is a little too rigorous on privacy imo. I currently have everything set to friends only, except that anyone can friend add me, and anyone can message me. The scanner sends a caution message because of this. Like -- I definitely think some privacy and vigilance are good, and I realize the scanner isn't enforcing anything just suggesting, but what's with people not letting anyone friend them? Just click *no* if you don't know the person.

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Hmmm. That was smaller than expected. Anyway, "hippocrates or wat" - I can't decide if this is unintentional or not.

it didn't alert me to turn off fr's, but that would be a bit much if it did.

kinda wanna poll hippocrates vs wat tyler

I'm guessing "hippocrates" was an auto spell-correct of whatever hideous non-word he typed? Just guessing.

'apparantley' wasn't dealt with though

The Apparantleys go back hundreds of generations in Britain.

ban FB

If you were going to embark on a serious Facebook "friends" purge, would you announce your intent with some sort of cover story or just delete a bunch of people whose politics you find abhorrent or whose lives you realize you have zero interest in and let them figure it out for themselves, if they even noticed?

the second

They won't notice. Odds are they've also been ignoring you for forever, too.

I just deleted like 20 friends yesterday. No warning. No regrets. Zap.

still hoping to eventually just quit

Thinking about it, giving warning or posting some kind of "Reasons why I can't stand any of your asses" screed would be really passive-aggressive. Do karate yes, or do karate no.

Even posting status updates of type #3, which I have done, is so nagl imo

I wouldn't post reasons why I can't stand people I'm connected to on FB. Sheesh. I would have made something up about how I reevaluated how I use FB and decided to use it for limited professional communications purposes and people can email me if they have something specific to get in touch with me about. Maybe not that exactly (I just made that up off the top of my head so I would have put more thought into it), but definitely not some misspelled, flouncing screed about getting tired of people whining, etc.

I was leaning towards just deleting people (I've done it on a small scale in the past) and mostly wondering if there's an established etiquette or prevailing posture for a massive FB connection delete before I, uh, did karate.

This is probably a precursor to eventual account deletion, but I'm trying to find a way to make FB fun/usable first before I just give up.

Deleted well over 100 friends recently. Felt fantastic.

I posted something last week about FB's awful privacy policy and how it'd drive me to delete my profile. Gives me a free pass for erratic friend deletions and disappearing sections of my profile, IMO.

I think it depends on why you're deleting them. When I clean friendlist just to weed out old people I don't recognize I don't bother posting about it. But when I'm fuming over something and want to teach people a lesson (whatever whatever) I post something. Like when Obama was elected and like 20 people on my friends list became SUPER RACIST, I made sure to let them know why they were being deleted. A few years later at a party I ran into one of them -- I had forgotten why I had deleted him but he remembered and was still butthurt I called him out on his racism.

yesterday a friend of mine popped up in my suggestions box as someone i should 'reconnect with', 'say hello to', etc. this particular friend passed away exactly two years ago but her profile's still intact. i mentioned this on FB and apparently everyone else i know who was friends with her had the same thing happen to them. so now i'm wondering how exactly does FB aggregate personal info about a user's death?

I would guess that a lot of people wrote on her wall today and that had something to do w/ the fb code suggesting other people to 'reconnect'?

this happened yesterday (the anniversary of her death), i started seeing her pop up in the suggestions box shortly past midnight

Okay, I just deleted about 60 connections. My criteria were to delete:

1. anybody to whom I am not related and who has been hidden from my "news feed" for more than three months.
2. anybody I added out of curiosity/fear of offending them by not adding them.
3. anybody who never posts anything.
4. anybody who has made me crazy w/ tea bagger politics or anti-vaccination stance (to whom I am not related).
5. anybody I went to high school with that I never liked anyway.

I kept the following:

1. People I regularly interact w/ on FB.
2. People I genuinely like even if they meet one or more of the above criteria.
3. People that I regularly interact w/ in real life even if they meet one or more of the above criteria.
4. People that I know professionally or through school and want to maintain some kind of connection w/ for my own personal gain.

Now I'm going to go hide all of my family members. This is wonderful, like cleaning out a really cluttered closet.

this was almost my exact keepers criteria^^

everytime i deleted someone i was like, milhouse you're cut, rodd, todd, you're cut it was p awesome

The best was deleting my anti-vaxxer of an ex-bf and all of the people that I know from high school who just used FB as a platform to post about how much they love God. And all of the people that I used to hang out with who turned into tea bagger lunatics since the last US presidential election.

I'll probably make a second run through in a month or so, since there were a few people that I kept because I felt too bad to delete them.

cutting out HS ppl i never talk to was a growing up moment, got sick of the internet being the site of a perpetual class reunion

all of the people that I know from high school who just used FB as a platform to post about how much they love God. And all of the people that I used to hang out with who turned into tea bagger lunatics since the last US presidential election.

Yup. That's what being from Texas gets me, too. Honestly, I'd rather hear about every detail of what their first child is doing. But I generally block those people, too.

are the "teabaggers" really that annoying?! how friggin many of them are there?!

They crawl.

I used to have a lot because my undergrad was swarming with them.

I am pleased that I'm a selective adder (also: unpopular) and only have about 50 friends. Even with such a limited group it's still managed to become the only form of communication I have with some of them, so feeling the urge to delete would be a bummer.

if u are actively communicating with them it doesn't seem like an issue imo.

I was offline yesterday, and now I've come back to find that Lexulous no longer exists on Facebook? Is it just a glitch, or did I miss something?

you hurt its feelings and it defriended you

;_;

damn how do you guys know so many anti-vaccine people? I don't think I've ever even met one.

are the "teabaggers" really that annoying?! how friggin many of them are there?!

I'm from a rural area so a lot of my family and people I grew up with have embraced the tea party ethos. Vocally.

As for anti-vax ppl, I ran around with a bunch of hippies for most of the 90s and many of them chose professions in the field of alternative healing/medicine or are really into natural remedies. I am (or in some cases, was) FB friends with a chiropractor, a naturopath, three doulas, two yoga instructors, and an herbalist. And a psychic. And two reverends of the woo woo spiritual persuasion. And like ten billion massage therapists.

Apparently there's no such thing as a reserved tea party enthusiast. Being outspoken is a part of the ideology.

Wasn't there some copyright thing with Lexulous? I use proper Scrabble app but I think it's only available in the US. Also it completely breaks my internet connection when I use it on my own computer which I can't get my head around (I do my Scrabbling on a laptop instead). Anyone else have this?

Oh and one organic papaya farmer, I'm not even kidding. He's pretty harmless, though. Just living in HI, running a papaya farm.

I thought the Lexulous/Scrabble thing was resolved well over a year ago. It was an active (and still superior) app... until today, when it completely disappeared.

Because refusal can offend, there are currently 65 people in what I call my Limbo List: parents of friends/my mother's friends (no fucking way), sceney people who use FB like MySpace who think they should know me (presumptuous), really cretinous/embarrassing people from HS that I can't just ignore - and a few others who are OK but because I haven't actually interacted with 'em IRL, they haven't been added.

Privacy issues: no online venue is completely non-porous so I don't post things I wouldn't be comfortable with (say) an editor or family friend reading. This is just basic common sense. I'm pretty careful about who I add in the first place - the only God-botherers are an otherwise cool HS friend who stans for homeschooling and another one who lost her son in Iraq and is very involved in being a Gold Star Mom (neither of whom would vote Republican) and the only friends that admit to being conservative are my sister's best friend in HS and an ex-cheerleader married to her HS sweetheart who is now a hairdresser/bodybuilder. Both of those are non-teabag; I really only see UH OH SOSHULISM posts on my BiL's wall and those dropped off after a few months of the usual whitefolksbitching. I have pointed out to them that the only intelligent people I see embracing that politics are cynically mining it for personal profit.

Not for the reasons folks here would want I figure but:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/21/world/21pstanspan-cnd/21pstanspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg

resisting the urge to post this to my fb and tag my friends in it.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-networking-site-changing-the-way-oh-chr,17465/

http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/facebook-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/

Large advertising companies including Google’s DoubleClick and Yahoo’s Right Media were identified as having received information including usernames or ID numbers that could be traced back to individual profiles as users clicked on ads. The data could potentially be used to look up personal information about the user, including real name, age, occupation, location, and anything else made public on the profile. Both of the aforementioned companies denied being aware of the “extra” data they were receiving and claim they have not made use of it.

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The Journal found that Facebook went farther than most in sharing identifiable data, by sending the username of the person clicking the ad as well as the username of the profile they were viewing at the time. This news could hardly come at a worse time for Facebook, a company that currently faces a privacy backlash potent enough to make the cover of Time Magazine this month.