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Author Topic: Privacy update for FT members using FaceBook Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-14-2009 06:01 PM                     If you don't already know, as of today, Facebook will automatically index all your info on Google, which allows everyone to view it. To change this option, go to Settings --> Privacy Settings --> Search --> then UNCHECK the box that says 'Allow indexing'. Facebook kept this one quiet. ..don't think that Google needs to gather this info... -Monte  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-14-2009 06:18 PM                        I'm not going to do what you suggest just to see if it's true.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-14-2009 06:36 PM                     There's TWO other people on there with my name! What are the odds of that?  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 12-14-2009 06:45 PM                     Thanks for that Monte! Much appreciated.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-14-2009 08:27 PM                        Since Googling my name has (for years) shown my participation here on Film-Tech, not to mention a couple of other boards I'm a member of, and of course the Roxy, I officially don't give a crap about this new Facebook development. I'm not sure why anyone would care about being "found" on Facebook, unless they're trying to hide something. (There are about a dozen other of me in the country anyway so if anyone blames anything bad on me, I'll say the Mike in Hawaii did it.)  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-14-2009 09:11 PM                        Well said Mike. It's just more paranoia. If you don't want it found, don't post it.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-14-2009 09:48 PM                     ..It's just the basis of a principle of an online service that you're a member of has no right in giving your information to another online service without your permission. (Poor ol' John Smith - thousands show up on Google...) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-14-2009 11:23 PM                     I tried it out by editing my hobbies, interests, etc. Sho'nuff, they pop up all sorts of ads based on shit you type into those boxes. Ain't marketing great!? I guess if someone jokingly typed in "kiddie porn" in the "interests" or "activities" box he would see an ad about how the FBI was about to kick his front door to splinters and haul his degenerate ass off to jail for the next 80 years!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-14-2009 11:25 PM                        I have never seen any ads ever on Facebook. But then again, I use the Ad Block Pro plug-in for Firefox. I wonder if Google Chrome will allow such things like that being that Google just wants to use the information on what you surf to advertise to you.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-15-2009 01:50 AM                     Facebook is annoying in that it lets people stay TOO private. To have an account you should at least HAVE to post a clear picture of your face. Too scared to do that? Sorry...move along. Without that picture, it makes searching for an old acquaintance extremely difficult! Similarly they should permit searching by high school, college and such to help narrow things down.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 12-15-2009 02:51 AM                     Fine, I'll get rid of happycat.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-15-2009 04:14 AM                        So I looked further into this and the option on Facebook says: Allow search engines to access your publicly available info and any information visible to Everyone That means if you have anything on your profile set so everyone can see it (not just friends, friends of friends, etc), then Google can see it. That's nothing. Whoever wrote the original Status Update viral message going around jumped to conclusions. If your privacy settings are on friends only, you're just fine. Otherwise the only things that Google can really see is your name, profile picture and perhaps location. Now I think I'll update my status!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-15-2009 05:25 AM                     Brad, I've searched by High School many times on FB...you haven't been able to? Steve  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-15-2009 10:39 AM                        I use Facebook and am not very concerned about my privacy on there. I have a good set of friends (140, I think, from the local community, with a few out-of-staters). I have very little "public". A few years ago, the default settings seemed to be much more "open" for people in the local networks, but very "closed" outside that. When I recreated the Facebook back in July, after being off of it a year and a half, I decided not to join a network or indicate my employment and schools. It's done wonders for keeping my non-work life separate from everyone else. No coworker or anyone close to one has found my profile yet, and I kinda like it that way so I don't have to worry about the mixing of, say, coworkers, with people from the coffee shop who I socialize with.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 12-16-2009 10:53 PM                        IMPORTANT: If you don't know, as of today, Facebook will automatically start plunging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to Settings --> Planetary Settings --> Trajectory then UN-CHECK the box that says 'Apocalypse.' Facebook kept this one quiet.  |  IP: Logged

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