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Thread ID: 113394	2010-10-17 21:41:00	Facebook or Stalkbook	coldfront (15814)	PC World Chat

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1145771	2010-10-18 08:59:00	Your still missing what I was on about. Sussed out all the protocols just not the one that says never under estimate a malicous ****** or two who thinks they are better than you. The ones that use public pages to broadcast to the world about you. Unfortunantely I found just such a webpage. Uhhh even if you aren't on facebook, people can post stuff about you...	xyz823 (13649)
1145772	2010-10-18 09:04:00	Uhhh even if you aren't on facebook, people can post stuff about you... Exactly, you can still be in photos on the site, and even name tagged in photos. Friends can sign you up for it. :pf1mobmini:	Chilling_Silence (9)
1145773	2010-10-18 09:57:00	Actually I just wasted my time asking this question because everyone has their own view. The fact that half the population is into facebook just shows where the socail lives have gone. Your going to find shy people are more likely to say something they wouldnt say on the internet than they do in public. Then you will also find those with a tendancy to take control or bully also find it a great place. Problem is no one can identify or admit to being either.	coldfront (15814)
1145774	2010-10-18 10:09:00	Then you will also find those with a tendency to take control or bully also find it a great place. Just block them completely, also, its no different to being bullied in real life. Except its some dipshit behind a keyboard who you can't deck when they insult you. You seem to mention facebook as a "place". Its not like a garden where everyone goes and everyone can interact with everyone. Your facebook is what YOU make it.	xyz823 (13649)
1145775	2010-10-18 10:10:00	Actually I just wasted my time asking this question because everyone has their own view . The fact that half the population is into facebook just shows where the socail lives have gone . Your going to find shy people are more likely to say something they wouldnt say on the internet than they do in public . Social lives haven't changed, merely the was in which we choose to interact with our work mates and friends has evolved .	xyz823 (13649)
1145776	2010-10-18 17:50:00	Social lives haven't changed, merely the was in which we choose to interact with our work mates and friends has evolved. Stuff my work mates it's bad enough having to spend 44 hours a week with them without socialising with them as well, I have always kept my work and private lives totally separate. I know there are tagged pictures of me on stalkbook since my Wife uses it but I still won't join it for the reasons I gave earlier	gary67 (56)
1145777	2010-10-18 18:23:00	Stuff my work mates it's bad enough having to spend 44 hours a week with them without socialising with them as well, I have always kept my work and private lives totally separate. I know there are tagged pictures of me on stalkbook since my Wife uses it but I still won't join it for the reasons I gave earlier Fair enough.	xyz823 (13649)
1145778	2010-10-26 01:38:00	[QUOTE=Chilling_Silence;958848]That and there's nothing saying it has to be public. [QUOTE] Facebook pages very much public, even when set as private By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Posted in ID, 25th October 2010 20:50 GMT Facebook settings that are supposed to cloak user profiles can easily be bypassed to reveal the friends, pictures, and other attributes of users who have configured their accounts to be private. The inability to keep profile pages private would seem to contradict Facebook's promise that "The settings you choose control which people and applications can see your information." In fact, profiles configured to be private remain viewable when manually browsing through the pages of users who are friends. “My problem with this issue is actually how I found the bug,” said Justin E. Dian, a software developer who brought the setting bypass to the attention of The Register. “People I didn't want requesting me as friends kept somehow finding me and requesting friendship. I keep my Facebook security settings pretty much as tight as possible and I soon realized this is how they were finding me.” The privacy settings were put in place following outcries that Facebook accounts spilled users' birthdates, friends, home towns, current location, and other information that could jeopardize their privacy. The new settings made it possible to share specific details with the world at large, a user's Facebook friends, friends of friends, or no one at all. A Facebook spokesman said certain information, including the URL to the user's profile page, the user's picture, sex, and networks remain public no matter what settings are chosen. “You can make it harder for people to find your profile in searches, but people may still be able to get to it in other ways (e.g., if they know your vanity URL or navigate there through a friend list or News Feed story),” the spokesman said. “The basic information that allows friends to find and connect with people is available to everyone and has no privacy settings.” The spokesman didn't respond to repeated questions asking whether Facebook had plans to change the settings so the information was no longer public. Profiles that have been designated as private are viewable when browsing a list of friends that includes the profile. These lists can be made available to the world at large, or to friends or friends of friends of the user. The lists include the profiles of all of the user's friends, even when they've told Facebook to keep information — including their friends — private. The arrangement means that it's impossible to keep a Facebook profile completely private if it includes even a single friend whose friend list is accessible to others. Dian said it probably wouldn't be hard to create a script that browses and records all of a user's friends of friends and then recursively browses and records each friend's friends who have lists set to be viewable by everyone or friends of friends. Search-engine spiders build detailed repositories of links in much the same fashion. “Doing this, you could quickly create a very large database of people and have, at the least, the following information on all of these people, no matter their security settings: name, profile picture, networks and sex,” Dian said. “So in essence, while Facebook offers you security settings to only be searchable by your friends, it would be very easy for someone you are not friends with to have access to the previous information.” Interestingly, using a name search to identify someone's friends won't list profiles that have been set to be private. But the same profiles continue to show up when you manually view the friends list. That means Facebook is technically correct that private profiles aren't searchable, even though they are in many cases easily found. ®	pctek (84)
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