Danny breaks down all of the exhausting and utterly strange changes, unchanges and rechanges to Facebook's privacy settings in the last few days.
Under the new regime, Facebook treats that information — along with your name, profile picture, current city, gender, networks, and the pages that you are a “fan” of — as “publicly available information” or “PAI.” Before, users were allowed to restrict access to much of that information. Now, however, those privacy options have been eliminated. For example, although you used to have the ability to prevent everyone but your friends from seeing your friends list, that old privacy setting — shown below — has now been removed completely from the privacy settings page.
In 2005 when I joined the Facebook, it was a college only space. Designed to replicate the Harvard Face Book, a sort of living breathing yearbook of all your classmates.
In 2006 the network changed dramatically, allowing anyone and everyone with an email address to join the site. Which was fine until most recently Facebook's privacy settings have changed. Now anyone on the internet can see a lot more information than I really want to share.
Suddenly, the Facebook is more hassle than its worth. So..this is my second attempt, and probably not my last... but I have now, indefinitely left the Facebook.
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