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[rivkat]

Your internet is not my internet: I read about this new Facebook stuff and it just makes me confused. Filters are exotic and nobody knows how to use them? And so Facebook is going to let other people decide what my Groups are? Why can’t I manage my friends myself and filter out specific people when I need to? (I take it that hidden somewhere

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[evalangui]

No, it's not just you, every time I need to use Facebook I discover something else that makes no intuitive sense. It's like they decided to get creative with logic when it's, you know, the only thing that needs to remain as it is.

[seperis]

Facebook isn't unintuitive--it's actually counter intuitive, and I verified this with a non-Lj, non-social network, total geek programmer friend. He was setting up a Facebook a few months ago, and I tried to explain how to do privacy settings--this was after PrivacyGate of recent memory--and it lost him so much that I ended up emailing him my login and password to just copy mine. This guy thinks a good time is command-line and running virtual OS's on his machine, so breaking him isn't easy, but one day later and I was just telling him to give up understanding and just copy.

OTOH, for people who have been on Facebook for a while and use it primarily, this is actually intensely intuitive to them, AKA my sisters and my mother. They also come from a totally differnet place regarding privacy as ewll. Which reminds me I meant to do a post on this after the last time I strip-searched Child's (two!) Facebooks to remove personal information from the public view. Just. IDEK.