Facebook/Off

[elias]

After finding out more about Facebook, I went ahead and deactivated (yes, the option to delete does not exist) that nonsense.

I shouldn't have to tell a website not to rifle through my cookies and broadcast what I'm purchasing to whoever I'm linked to via that site.

Comments

[elias]

LJ was the one site I didn't have a problem with, until I read your post just now.

Sheez.

[iamsquid]

yeah is that fucked-up or what?

it actually asks yoo to give it the password for yor email so it can spam yor contacts

it tries tracking people via their relationships and personal details

I can't believe people actually sign-up for that shit

[elias]

Yeah, too little too late.

I'm not really sure what drew a couple of my friends initially, but when I got the invite I joined and left it alone for awhile.

When I went back to set it up, I started noticing more things that made me uneasy: You can see where a person works and who else works there, where people went to school and with whom, etc. This is assuming that people are filling out the questions (which most of them are). So, already there's all this info on a person without even looking in their cache.

It's a social engineer's wet dream.