Facebook alert!
Aug. 11th, 2011 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibet The privacy alarms are sounding once again among Facebook users with the discovery late last week that material posted on the popular social networking site can be seen by other people – potentially by anyone on the entire planet, depending on the privacy settings a user has chosen.
Even restricting access to one's posts is no guarantee that no one can see it. "It's a terrible invasion of privacy!" agrees John Cranglehammer, who lives, according to his profile, at 1212 Main Street and whose last public status update says he is having a fursuit party tonight. "All of my friends-only posts are there in one place where people I sort of remember from high school can see them. If I added them, I mean. If Facebook doesn't shape up soon, I'm going to move to [new social networking site] Google Plus. Well, as soon as everyone else I know does."
Worse, Facebook users can post about other users without their permission. That's what bothers user Yolanda Snoodbeacon, who is apparently home alone for the weekend and looking forward to some no-pants time: "The other day, one of my friends tagged me in a post warning all of his past partners to get tested ASAP. How could Facebook let that happen? I haven't been so mortified since that one time when no one bothered to comment on that topless photo of myself I put on MySpace."
A Facebook spokesperson found hiding in this reporter's bedroom closet had no comment.
Even restricting access to one's posts is no guarantee that no one can see it. "It's a terrible invasion of privacy!" agrees John Cranglehammer, who lives, according to his profile, at 1212 Main Street and whose last public status update says he is having a fursuit party tonight. "All of my friends-only posts are there in one place where people I sort of remember from high school can see them. If I added them, I mean. If Facebook doesn't shape up soon, I'm going to move to [new social networking site] Google Plus. Well, as soon as everyone else I know does."
Worse, Facebook users can post about other users without their permission. That's what bothers user Yolanda Snoodbeacon, who is apparently home alone for the weekend and looking forward to some no-pants time: "The other day, one of my friends tagged me in a post warning all of his past partners to get tested ASAP. How could Facebook let that happen? I haven't been so mortified since that one time when no one bothered to comment on that topless photo of myself I put on MySpace."
A Facebook spokesperson found hiding in this reporter's bedroom closet had no comment.
