Not that long ago Facebook changed it privacy settings across the board and we all had to deal with it. A notification on the homepage went up to alert us of this change and then one day we were all prompted to modify our privacy changes. What Facebook didn’t really explain was that due to these changes our profile picture, location, friends, networks, and fan pages would still be available to the public. Wait, what? I don’t really remember reading that in the notification that Facebook put out there, and now that I think about it, I really didn’t understand that much about it. I had to be alerted via other outlets of this “modification.” What was wrong with the old privacy settings installed because these new ones seemed only designed to help everyone at Facebook and not the users. We get our privacy on the Internet (which really isn’t that safe) lessened and for what exactly. If our safety is in danger, don’t we at least get to know why? Well, maybe someone will start a group on Facebook to get some answers because it isn’t as if anyone will just up and quit the most popular social networking site ever.
-Ruben
Archive for the ‘Teh Internetz’ Category
Facebook: Privacy Settings My ###!
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Creppy Profile Pics
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
I have a question that needs to be answered immediately. This question has kept me up at night for hours on end and no one can seem to give me a straight answer. Why are there Pokemon characters on Facebook as people’s profile pictures? It may seem silly to some of you, but I hope there are others out there that feel my pain. I just need to know why this is, who decides this sort of thing, and when will it stop? I don’t know why it bothers me so, but it does and I want it gone. It also kills me that apparently this month the same thing will be done, but with Muppets. This makes even less sense since there might only be 20 actual Muppet characters (this is an educated guess, I‘m really not an avid fan of the Muppets). That means that the possibility of repeating characters is far more likely, which messes with people’s attempts at originality on Facebook even further. There might already be a group on Facebook condemning the creation of themes for profile pictures, but I think a personal letter to the head honchos of Facebook is required to eliminate such as disturbing trend from corrupting Facebook.
- Ruben
Inappropriate or Not?
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
I recently read an article about younger children having accounts on Facebook. The minimum age limit for an account on Facebook is 13 yet often we can find children younger than that on Facebook. Parents shouldn’t be allowing their kids to make accounts at that age, much less making it for them — yet there are parents who do so. Even with the recently so-called “improved” privacy settings, it can still be dangerous for the kid to have a Facebook account — especially if real information is put online including their name, location, and picture which some parents put up for their child. Sure, they might just want their child to join the latest trends but Facebook isn’t really the way to go. The casualness of the security settings as well as the ambiguous “Allow indexing” box in the privacy settings (which really puts your info up on search engines for the world to see) are clear signs that kids and adults alike should be more aware of what they are getting themselves/their kids into. Internet safety anyone?
- Vivian
None of your business
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Some of the ads I’ve seen targeted towards teens and pre-teens are beginning to irritate me because they’re everywhere! I think at some point, I’m just going to have to accept that my life will be marketed to (until I’m safely out of the 13-21 demographic. Or something). But right now, I just want to rant/complain/whine/throw a fit about it.
By “everywhere” I mean everywhere from TV (I should be used to that by now), magazines, to Facebook. The Facebook ones are the worst. I’m sad to say that they almost worked on me. “WHICH OF UR FRIENDS LIKES U? FIND OUT!! CLICK HERE!!” is usually what I see on Facebook nowadays. At this point, a lot of internet ads are blending in pretty well with other site elements so I almost clicked out of curiosity. Shouldn’t we at least be able to distinguish between the actual content and the ads??
- Allyson