I’m getting really close to closing down my Facebook account. After reading this article, I’m even that much closer. Here’s what I don’t like about Facebook:
- Pokes & Application requests. Stop sending them. They’re annoying.
- Privacy issues like crazy.
- Never ending feed of what I change on Facebook. I think I got that to stop tracking my activities, finally.
- Pages and pages of privacy settings. All of which is open by default.
Thanks for the article. I never use facebook, but a few weeks back I signed up just so my sister would stop sending me invites to it. I just went and deactivated the account though. I don’t need them poking around. I even saw gamefly reporting to facebook what games I had rented and what ones I put in my queue. Ridiculous!
haha, whats hilarious about this is that article:
“The program has been blasted by groups such as MoveOn.org and by individual users who have unwittingly broadcast information about recent purchases and other Web activities to their Facebook friends. This has led to some embarrassing situations, such as blowing the surprise of holiday presents”
i bet it was a lot more mebarrassing than a holiday present.
Hahaha. Probably was!
i do feel very violated indeed.
well, i do agree that they have some major privacy issues..but the truth is, all networking sites do. which i know.. you hate all of them equally. but at least facebook is aesthetically pleasing (relatively). unlike myspace, which is the ugliest site i have ever seen. and i can’t even ignore their stupid ads.
facebook IS evil, but have been getting most of the negatively publicity lately.. but yea, closing your account is always an option.
Myspace is STILL the ugliest site on the net. I have no idea how they get away with it. Haha.