Attention: Facebook Still Not Trustworthy

Posted on | December 3, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook can use your photos in ads that appear on the profile page of your contacts. It’s legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings, Privacy Settings, News Feed and Wall. Then… Facebook Ads, choose “No one” and save changes.

Taken, paraphrased, from Ajashatru‘s blog – paraphrased specifically because I believe this has been true for Facebook for some time.

I really don’t like Facebook. It’s not just the privacy issue or photo copyright issue, either, but the advertisements, spam (which you also have to opt out of), addictive games that require you to come back or your cute virtual pet will die or you’ll never make enough virtual money to buy that castle, etc. I guess I’ve just been spoiled by WordPress and Dreamwidth when it comes to ad-free, private, anonymity-friendly social networking sites where people make up their own games.

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