Facebook have removed search profile privacy

Hades said:
I completely agree. I don't use FB although I do have an account for a couple of reunion groups. I won't install it on my phone though. But the amount of data collection across the board is incredible. Not just FB. I've gradually started to move away from Google products, already use Linux, and am probably going to get a VPN to limit as much collection as possible. My use of Android is a problem and the only real solution is to move to an iPhone instead. But I'm not sure whether that's a complete solution either. I'm not tin foil hat enough to get rid of a smartphone but I do want to limit it in areas I can. Youtube is a problem because it's linked to Google. But once I stop using gmail then I can probably just create a completely new account just for that.

I was one of the archetypal micro computer geeks and an early technology adopter. But the direction we are going in is quite scary. There is face recognition in some parts of London and I can see a cashless society and completely automated cars in my lifetime. Once they arrive then your every movement will be tracked and may even be blocked if you don't have enough social credit (such as one particular country already does).

Scary times, but we all just accept too much surveillance in exchange for the shiny shiny things technology brings us.
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I'd switch to Linux if I didn't game on my PC. I know that running Windows games under Linux has become much better, but it's still a case of little over half of games running to a playable extent with an acceptable degree of inconvenience.

You can use Youtube without using (or even having) an account for it. I do. Google could stop that, but at the moment it has decided that it doesn't have enough dominance in that area to be certain of getting away with it.

I'm just glad I'm old enough to probably be dead before it gets much worse. Because it will get much worse. Power tends to corrupt and the greater the power the greater the corruption. With complete control over everyone's movements, employment, purchases (even if they have enough money) communication and even gestures (since those will be automatically monitored too), great corruption is pretty much inevitable.
 
TheOracle said:
best way to leave facebook is gradually. Don't go cold turkey. Most come back.
Just start removing your 'friends' over a couple of years till it becomes pointless.
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I did precisely that this year. I did not like the way Facebook was going with what was 'being posted' by my 'friends'. The last straw was when A 'friend request' came in regarding something that I tried as hard as I could to keep off there (In case of being scammed, If you are curious it was regarding my house refurbishment in order to get a new tenant, which is now sorted) FB was poking its nose where it didn't belong so I deactivated my account. 6 Months on I don't miss being on there at all.
 
Same as @elmarko ... Just use it to follow certain news organisations or websites who post updates on there and few interest groups.

Do have friends who post interesting stuff but people who post drivel get demoted to acquaintances so I don't see their posts and they don't see mine.
 
I'm not surprised. Americans don't really have much privacy anyway. Privacy seems to be more protected in the UK/EU.
 
What's the big issue exactly? If your timeline posts and activities are set to friends only view then doesn't matter if joe public can search you up as all they will see is your profile picture and anything you've shared with public view set.

At the end of it, you're using a free service with terms and conditions that state things can and will change at any time. You agreed to these things when joining.
 
It doesn't bother me, I don't put anything important on it, just use it to keep in touch with people, and funny stories and pics.
Tailor the service for you, not for them.
 
StriderX said:
I wish a service would just exist to connect people and that be enough, even if you don't have an account they just create a shadow, there's no escaping it.
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Burned_Alive said:
There's no money in that though.
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There was a web site about 10-15 years ago called Face Party. It had a fairly inexpensive paid model, something like £20 per year and it did pretty much what you described. People networking with other people without ads or tracking. You weren't the product.

For some reason though, the sheeple left Face Party and opted to become a product of Facebook. Granted it's free, but you have sold your soul and privacy in return.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
There was a web site about 10-15 years ago called Face Party. It had a fairly inexpensive paid model, something like £20 per year and it did pretty much what you described. People networking with other people without ads or tracking. You weren't the product.

For some reason though, the sheeple left Face Party and opted to become a product of Facebook. Granted it's free, but you have sold your soul and privacy in return.
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You've proved my point and perfectly described why it died in a single post!
 
elmarko said:
I still have a facebook account, but it's simply used as a glorified news feed for a few news websites & somewhere for family to post updates.

The trick to using facebook is not using it serious or caring about it (not putting anything important on it).
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Yes this, I use mine to check in everywhere I go in my truck as my old man enjoys following me about, I occasionally post something like birthday messages to friends but on my profile that’s about it, tbh I reckon I’ll be off it within a few months, it’s tiresome and frankly depressing the amount of **** you see friends - who you thought better of - posting.

I don’t see it lasting in its current form, a few years from now I think it’ll be basically an advertisement fed business platform of some kind or another, assuming it’s still even relevant.....
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
There was a web site about 10-15 years ago called Face Party. It had a fairly inexpensive paid model, something like £20 per year and it did pretty much what you described. People networking with other people without ads or tracking. You weren't the product.

For some reason though, the sheeple left Face Party and opted to become a product of Facebook. Granted it's free, but you have sold your soul and privacy in return.
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Paid? Christ, I left that before it was a paid service then!

How about MySpace? :D
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
There was a web site about 10-15 years ago called Face Party. It had a fairly inexpensive paid model, something like £20 per year and it did pretty much what you described. People networking with other people without ads or tracking. You weren't the product.

For some reason though, the sheeple left Face Party and opted to become a product of Facebook. Granted it's free, but you have sold your soul and privacy in return.
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I've just looked up my face party account and it still exists

Such a chav 13 years ago :eek:

https://www.faceparty.com/spunkydamonkey
 
People still use Facebook? Crazy world.

Deactivated my account years ago and my life has only improved, there's really nothing on there of any value.
 
Your life has improved because you no longer have an active facebook account? Colour me cynical :p

There is more to question if the sheer presence of a social media account affects you in real life whether it's who you socialise with or your activities online.
 
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