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Imagine how hard it will be for this guy to live this one down.

On Saturday evening, a Facebook event invitation was sent to some of the over 2,300 friends of Jim Breyer, the Accel Partners venture capitalist who sits on Facebook's board of directors, asking "Would you like a Facebook phone number?" As it turned out, this was a scam: Users who entered their passwords in response to the spoof message from Breyer in turn had the whole thing sent to their friends lists, too. "This was a phishing scam and Jim's account appears to have been compromised," read a statement from Facebook.
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Irony at it's finest. I'm pretty much sick and tired of all the new facebook "security" changes. I don't want everyone to see my info, I don't want websites automatically putting my facebook picture on their sites along with my info, I don't want facebook doing anything other than allowing me to keep abreast of my college buddies overseas or on the coasts.
 
The privacy claims are pretty lame IMO. You can tighten down your account easily (although time consuming for some). It's the apps that scare me. They need to tighten down their app policies and probably get rid of a few hundred of the spammy ones. They're letting it turn into a mess.

It's almost as if they don't have a clear path or line of command. Their actions seem haphazard and I think it's likely due to it being so profitable so quickly. It's a cash-cow and they hardly seem to care about the users.

I kind of hope google ends up buying them and fixing it all up. :)
 
Quinn1981 said:
The privacy claims are pretty lame IMO. You can tighten down your account easily (although time consuming for some). It's the apps that scare me. They need to tighten down their app policies and probably get rid of a few hundred of the spammy ones. They're letting it turn into a mess.

It's almost as if they don't have a clear path or line of command. Their actions seem haphazard and I think it's likely due to it being so profitable so quickly. It's a cash-cow and they hardly seem to care about the users.

I kind of hope google ends up buying them and fixing it all up. :)
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Lame as in you don't think you should have ultimate privacy as the default option instead of "sell all of my information" as the default? Privacy is an enormous problem today. There are way too many identity theft cases going on and many can't be prosecuted because they originate outside of the country. A universal site like Facebook that gives out personal information at will to people who could be anywhere in the world is a veritable marketplace for identity theft. There was a good link I had the other day that showed the timeline and evolution of FB privacy policies and how they have made a full 180.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

and another one based off of that:

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

I think these pretty clearly show how FB is abusing its users now. Privacy is a huge issue and other countries have far, far more strict laws about privacy than the US.
 
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