Yep, new Facebook settings again. Now Facebook has decided to tell everybody that you shared with who else you shared that post with...
In the last post about Facebook settings, I wrote that this was not the case. Well, that was true then but in all new posts, from today for me, for others probably later, you can also see exactly who has access to each post someone else posts. So now we can all see who is being excluded and who is being included.
I don't appreciate FB giving away my information to people. If I chose to leave certain things of of the loop, that is my business, not someone elses. And if I am stupid enough to share different things with people who talk to each other that is my problem too. But when I share things with the Düsseldorf group asking about Düsseldorf specific things I don't want to spam the whole of Sweden, but I also don't want my Düsseldorf friends to "figure out" who is in the group and who isn't, because it is irrellevant.
I am now looking at moving to GooglePlus instead, because Facebook is, in my eyes, getting worse and worse, and more and more difficult to keep track of, the old settngs had finally settled and everything was controllable, and then they switched the concept completely.
And now I have lost interest.
9 comments:
I think this is a great change. Now I can see who sees my comments, before I had no idea of who saw them... (Some internal jokes should be just internal for example)
I know you feel it is. I don't, I think it is lousy, and I believe it will lead to people talking more, not less, and being insulted or sad more often than in the past.
And most important: Don't trust what you see. Count on it being public for everybody because the person who created the post can change later, after the posting and after you commented. This was not possible before. So internal jokes that can be offensive to anyone should be kept to mails regardless.
And don't expect any more postings from me on FB. It is really nobody elses business who lives in the Düseldorf area (all the postings that are specific for DÜsseldorf (when does this or that place close etc) are going to a separate group. I don't want to reveal to others who is in that group. Same with people who speak Swedish, it is just up to me to know who that is.
What I am most afraid of though is that they will even more than before map out who "belongs" to whom etc, and misuse that for marketing etc.
Oh, changing who can see a post is really bad. On the other hand, I trust the people I comment too that they know what is OK to share and not.
And no, it's not about being offensive to people who can't see, more about things that can be embarrasing to the people that can see the post, so that they want to keep it secret... :)
I do like the new subscriptions by the way. Finally I can decide who I want to see in my feed. For example you rarely turned up because we don't communicate on FB, while others turned up all the time just because I liked a post or two in the past...
I'm sceptic about the new lists though. Why give me a lot of new lists, the ones I had were good and sorted, don't need a second Familylist for example, one that I can't delete...
Jag minnsinte hur men jag har tagit bort dem funktionerna så mina vänner kan varken se var jag är (close to Berlin) eller med vem jag delar. Enbart jag själv kan se det. Dessutom tror jag fb enbart visar friends eller public o inte skriver ut namnen på listrna man delat med. Förresten har man hela tiden kunnat påverka detta, jag finner det jättepraktiskt att dela in vännern ai listor så man kan gömma sig på chatten för vissa pratkvarnar, det har man kunnat göra länge men nu är det lite mer tydlgit. Hur som, gå in på privacy settings och view your profile as... så kan du se hur dina olika vänner ser din profil.
Dan: Subscription worked before too, for friends, only difference (part from knowing where and how) is that now you can also subscribe to posts from people you are not friends with. If they allow you. But yes, it is a nice feature if you want to use it, although personally I think there are other forums for shouting out to the whole world. Twitter, blogs and so forth. I am uncomfortable with Facebook trying to be/do everything, and not letting us chose. Although I too appreciate knowing if it is shared with MORE than friends, then I know to be careful with posting personal info, I am not going to shout out that I am on holiday on a wall that is shared with everybody. If it is friends or LESS than friends I don't care who though. And yes, changing after publishing is possible now. I'll swap to mainly personal messages on FB now. Not deleting the account but locking it down more until they have stabilised.
Odd. Burgschki, jag svarade dig men kan inte se mitt eget svar nu. Hur som helst: Ja, du har rätt, med förra uppdateringen. Nu har de ändrat igen, jag fick igenom den igår, och nu kan man verkligen, på alla nya poster, se exakt vem det är delat med. Har ett testkonto som jag aktiverar när det är en stor ändring, och noterade ändringen.
Ända sättet att slippa undan är att uppdatera med min smartphone, för jag har fortfarande gamla mjukvaran...
PS! Med de senaste ändringarna går man inte in under "Privacy settings" för att kolla profilen längre, utan under Profile, i övre högra hörnet finns "view profile as".
The change to subscription is that you can now choose between seeing everything, most or just important posts from someone. You can also remove different types of updates from specific people.
I agree, limiting what updates you see is nice, although there were some things you could limit already before, I have for example not seen games updates and horoscopes etc from people in a LONG time.
Same for me. Unless I've used my iPhone, then I've suddenly seen all that crap again... But this is better, now you can remove peoples likes and comments also for example...
But that's not the important part for me, instead it is that I can manually change who I see a lot from, and who I see almost nothing from, instead of being left to FBs smart guessing...
Post a Comment