Why does Facebook stink when it comes to privacy?

[Variant7]

Before Facebook came to the forefront, there was an unspoken expectation of how social networking websites handles our private information. That all changed with the onslaught of Facebook.

It's unbelievable how a company like Facebook, who's privacy policy has been sloppy, irresponsible, and unethical, has been able to flourish and become so popular with millions of people. If it wasn't for the good work of the privacy watchdogs, Facebook would not have been kept in check and they wouldn't have felt the pressure to change their ways to be more in compliance with proper privacy standards.

Generally speaking, I think the type of people who sign up for a Facebook account are attention-seeking people who have never been burned before. As more and more people begin to realize how tyrannical this company's privacy policy really is, and the resultant 'forced sharing' of their personal information, I think there will eventually be a backlash and more and more people will delete their Facebook accounts.

Even the roots of this Facebook company is shady - allegedly, the website was built based on stolen code by their CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook crossed the line that should've never been crossed when it comes to privacy standards. Although they're attempting to make amends now by improving their privacy settings, it's unlikely that it will be enough because of the simple fact that the company was not built on the right foundation.

What's your opinion on this?

[La Volpe]

Mark Zuckerberg is a man who believes that everyone details should be out in the open and we shouldn't have privacy (despite the fact that he covered up a newspaper article claiming that he stole the whole Idea for Facebook.............which he did)

[katzy]

Blaming Facebook is like putting the cart before the horse. It is the people telling every little movement they make on the site. Facebook is just the site they use. Who cares if you are going to make an egg sandwich in a few minutes. I mean really and if you want to advertise that you are going away for two weeks and are stupid enought to put your address on there then expect to be robbed. No it isn't Facebook it is the trusting people who tell all on the site. People should have more sense.

[JCMC]

you want to see proper non privacy?

go to '' myopenbook.org''

tells u everything people say on fb---even blocked people

scary

[d_dock_2000]

Same reason FACEBOOK stinks when it comes to everything else.
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[Christine B]

I quit FB some time ago and am so glad I did. Some friends from high school did contact me, which would not have happened, and that was great. I would rather have my privacy, thank you.

[crookedwing853]

Facebook is but the bellwether of more to come. Underhandedness is the credo on not just Facebook but countless other sites and businesses. No one can input a single thing, using any web page, without at some point someone else reading what has been input. These sites share information that you will have never thought would be put up on any web page -- but, lo, there it is, forwarded without our knowledge.

The webmasters design these sites according to the deceptions set up and intended by these sites' owners. And so once you input information, quite probably you cannot access your own information or retrieve it, and will not be able to delete or modify it -- they own it. Such is part of the disclaimers that they always preface their sites with -- and which few if any people read.

Even Yahoo Answers does this. These sites all give technical and legal reasons why they ask for certain information, but just you try to gather information from them 'about them'! 'Won't happen with the exception of learning their share values and holdings on the stock exchanges, which are required disclosing by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulating agencies that private and public companies have to abide.

Let us face it -- no one enjoys the right of privacy any longer except those who have had the patience to follow though on sealing their vital records, which may be accorded by the respective county or city government deeds and records divisional offices. And even having that done is questionable as to how foolproof this really is -- those offices may even suggest that some records 'must' be allowed publicizing and will not honor your requests.

The corporations and government laws have become commercial gods; and the lawyers, their emissaries and prophets.

Furthermore, some privacy concerns are required disclosing by federal laws: the gargantuan law enforcement and intelligence agencies throughout the country already have more information on any one person than even that person himself would care anyone else to know about and can tap into whatever information they so choose, no matter if this were bank information, medical information or just about anything imaginable. All it takes is a court-ordered subpoena to change every inalienable right you had before believed was your right to have.

Such is but nothing less than a turn on and extension of Eminent Domain and Manifest Destiny -- arrogance and prurient voyeurism, all of it.