Time to rethink about Facebook
We're talking about Beacon here.
At first, not everybody understood what it is.
Then people began to realize and complain.
Then Facebook sort of gave in and changed it from "opt-out" to "opt-in".
Then people calmed down a bit.
Then they realized that eventhough you've not opt-in, Facebook is still collecting your purchase information.
Then people uproar again and this is how Facebook replied:
Do you believe Facebook? Or are you willing to live with it for all the other good things that Facebook brings you?
Article from Fast Company
At first, not everybody understood what it is.
Then people began to realize and complain.
Then Facebook sort of gave in and changed it from "opt-out" to "opt-in".
Then people calmed down a bit.
Then they realized that eventhough you've not opt-in, Facebook is still collecting your purchase information.
Then people uproar again and this is how Facebook replied:
When a Facebook user takes a Beacon-enabled action on a participating site, information is sent to Facebook in order for Facebook to operate Beacon technologically. If a Facebook user clicks "No, thanks" on the partner site notification, Facebook does not use the data and deletes it from its servers. Separately, before Facebook can determine whether the user is logged in, some data may be transferred from the participating site to Facebook. In those cases, Facebook does not associate the information with any individual user account, and deletes the data as well.
Do you believe Facebook? Or are you willing to live with it for all the other good things that Facebook brings you?
Article from Fast Company
Labels: Reflection
Where is that "Facebook Beacon" came from? Is it an addon? Where I can disable it?
Posted by
Anonymous |
December 05, 2007 12:53 PM
Here's how you can disable Beacon completely:
- Click on "privacy" on the upper left hand corner
- Click on "External Websites"
- Choose "Don't allow any websites to send stories to my profile"
Posted by
Tim |
December 05, 2007 3:31 PM
I think it's not just "Time to rethink about Facebook", but "Time to rethink about online social networking".
Posted by
Tim |
December 05, 2007 3:32 PM
follow up:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130
Thanks 阿中 for the link.
Posted by
Alan Yu |
December 06, 2007 12:04 AM