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[primsong]

Why am I absolutely not even mildly surprised?

Facebook in Online Privacy Breach (at the online Wall Street Journal)

Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found....

It seems LJ's new overlords would love to follow in such footsteps. I imagine enthusiastic plans to start up a goat-themed version of Farmville that will autofill the sidebars, then to convert the icons into 'flair'.... oooo, just think of the advertising revenue...

*snuggles DWth account*

Comments

[nalynas]

I'm truly glad to find another person on the internet who doesn't have and doesn't want a FB account. My daughter's bugged me for years to sign up, and I've continued to utterly, completely refuse to go near it.

I hit the main page, once, and got this overwhelming sense of dread. I surfed off elsewhere and haven't looked back. Call me nuts all you like; if it feels wrong, I'm not going there.

[morwen_peredhil]

Yeah, I've always had a bad feeling about FB. One of my sisters feels the same, so there are at least three of us who aren't on FB.

My husband insists on using FB, despite all the horror stories I have shared with him about it, but he's under strict orders not to mention me by name or post any photos with me in them.

[nalynas]

I was beginning to feel like the lone holdout, which only makes me dig my heels in more and say forget it, no way.

I took another look at the article, read it thoroughly, and just shook my head. My ex husband has done his level best to bury me every way he can, and of course my current husband's ex wife has done the same to him. What's being done - has been done, I should say - here sounds so much like something one of them would pull. Makes me extremely glad the hubby didn't bow to pressure from HIS family to set up a FB account. All he had to say, when I read it to him, was "oh that's just NOT good", which in his laid back, southern way means "oh hell no". Heh.

[juliet316]

I've never had a Facebook account either. I've never saw the appeal of it, and the increasing privacy concerns have only validated that for me.

[nalynas]

Thank you! It makes me feel a lot better, knowing I'm not the only one. And what did I find in my email inbox, beside notification of this comment? "Six new crushes, join FB today to find out who they are!"

*falls over laughing*