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PSA: Facebook and Privacy

Celtic EmberCeltic Ember member
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So, with them forcing timeline on everyone, I took the chance to review my security settings.

Sure enough, everything will default to public unless you change it. So, people, make sure you lock everything down tight. I don't want to see anyone's kids pictures sold to advertisers.

 

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  • chach916chach916
    Do you know when they are switching everyone to the timeline?
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  • Celtic EmberCeltic Ember member
    February 7th, from what I just saw. I proactively did it so I could manage my own security settings. Frankly, I'm seriously considering deactivating my account, but my extended family would kill me since it's the only way they get updates about DS.
     

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    imageCeltic Ember:
    February 7th, from what I just saw. I proactively did it so I could manage my own security settings. Frankly, I'm seriously considering deactivating my account, but my extended family would kill me since it's the only way they get updates about DS.

    I guess I'm confused.  What is so bad about it?  Just the fact that anyone can jump to any post you may have written in the past?  I find it kind of neat, like an online scrapbook.   But I haven't moved over because it seems to move very slow when i'm on friends' timeline pages.

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  • BLUEIEDHIPPYBLUEIEDHIPPY
    can anyone explain how to move to the timeline early to me? I've looked through what I could think of but can't figure it out! TIA!!
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  • Celtic EmberCeltic Ember member
    imagechach916:

    imageCeltic Ember:
    February 7th, from what I just saw. I proactively did it so I could manage my own security settings. Frankly, I'm seriously considering deactivating my account, but my extended family would kill me since it's the only way they get updates about DS.

    I guess I'm confused.  What is so bad about it?  Just the fact that anyone can jump to any post you may have written in the past?  I find it kind of neat, like an online scrapbook.   But I haven't moved over because it seems to move very slow when i'm on friends' timeline pages.

    What's bad about it is they're setting the security for all those new spanky features to 'public' so that ad companies can find them. All your previous posts, anything you haven't designated as friends only, will be avaliable to anyone.

     

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  • snicksnacksnicksnack member
    Right now all of my settings are set to Friends only.  Specifically what should I be doing before the change?
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  • MolluskwranglerMolluskwrangler member

    imagesnicksnack:
    Right now all of my settings are set to Friends only.  Specifically what should I be doing before the change?

    This is what I am wondering.

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  • TBLilyRoseTBLilyRose member

    imagesnicksnack:
    Right now all of my settings are set to Friends only.  Specifically what should I be doing before the change?

    I don't think you can change anything until it changes. There are new features that you'll have to disable once you get the new format. 

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  • chach916chach916
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    imageCeltic Ember:
    imagechach916:

    imageCeltic Ember:
    February 7th, from what I just saw. I proactively did it so I could manage my own security settings. Frankly, I'm seriously considering deactivating my account, but my extended family would kill me since it's the only way they get updates about DS.

    I guess I'm confused.  What is so bad about it?  Just the fact that anyone can jump to any post you may have written in the past?  I find it kind of neat, like an online scrapbook.   But I haven't moved over because it seems to move very slow when i'm on friends' timeline pages.

    What's bad about it is they're setting the security for all those new spanky features to 'public' so that ad companies can find them. All your previous posts, anything you haven't designated as friends only, will be avaliable to anyone.

    Yeah, this pisses me off only becuase I have already gone in and set my privacy settings to lock-down.  It's really obnoxious if they're undoing your current settings. 

    ETA ok I misunderstood....it's the new features that are set to public.  But still.  If everything in your profile is private you'd think they could assume you want future features set to private too.

    Ok color me stupid.  But I'm still confused.  The new features can be set to private though right?  Can't I just switch to private and all is well?

    I feel like I'm missing something.

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  • Celtic EmberCeltic Ember member

    See this article

    https://tech.ca.msn.com/facebook-timeline-looms-what-you-need-to-know-1

     

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