Comments on: A valuable lesson from Randi Zuckerberg: Online privacy is complicated

By: Perle

Perle — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:16:59 +0000

Exactly right, Jeavonna! If you don’t want it shared, then don’t put it on Facebook!!! That’s all the privacy that should be needed. It’s somewhat similar to the advice that “if you don’t want your mom to find out what you’re doing, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it.”

If one really feels the need to share something on FB that they don’t want shared to others, then it’s their job to put that in their update – “please don’t share this.” It is not incumbent upon me to ask them if I can share something once it showed up in my feed.

By: AA Car Transport

AA Car Transport — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:55:32 +0000

I guess this is the reality that bites! Facebook have zero privacy! on the other hand, if you want privacy don’t post it online anywhere to keep it private or if you really want to share – email it to who ever you want to share it with….

I guess Randy felt like us.

By: kikegitaa

kikegitaa — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:55:09 +0000

I’m totally in disagreement over Facebook’s requiring permission to download another’s email once it is sent to the person “intended..”
Once someone sends you a letter ,it and its contents are yours to do with what you want. If anything, there should be a contract or “setting” where people who exchange info on FB (generally or specifically) agree between “themselves” what can or cannot be distributed, tagged, etc. If the agreement is violated, then the party has the option to “unfriend” or cutoff that relationship.
We’re adults here, Zuckerberg. There are some things we are more than capable of working out for ourselves

By: Harmony M., Excellent Presence

Harmony M., Excellent Presence — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:19:22 +0000

This is hilariously apropos. At the risk of sounding juvenile… “Nyah!”

By: ginamrau

ginamrau — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:32:30 +0000

This supports that Facebook’s privacy settings are confusing even to those who should be most familiar with them. How can Facebook expect the average user to understand how private their status’, photos and other content is?

Facebook has faced too many privacy issues this year that have had a cumulative effect on their brand trust. 2013 is likely the year that they have to make some tough decisions in order to keep users, brands and investors happy.

By: Kathy E Gill

Kathy E Gill — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:50:29 +0000

* Argh. Y’all embed the tweet on URL include … and have no edit comment option. :-)

ONE more thing. When you are a public figure (like Randi is due to her past position at Facebook and being Mark’s sister) I think your expectation of privacy should be different — just as a defamation/libel case has a different threshold for public figures.

And Google’s not-initially-baked-in-but-demanded-by-customers prevention of making “non-public” posts “public” would not have helped in this case as Callie copied the photo in order to post it on Twitter. The proper (IMO) thing to do would have been to share the FB status/photo. Callie would have quickly seen that the photo was not public.

By: Kathy E Gill

Kathy E Gill — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:31 +0000

Mathew – then there’s the niggle (well, I think that it’s more than a niggle) that Randi deleted all of her Twitter conversation with Callie. THEN she dropped the bomb “be polite” bomb.

But here’s where my mind went at the start of this story, because I’m old, jaded and cynical:

“Took me a few days to download FB’s Poke App, but one thing’s for sure. I no longer need to be convinced of the value of ephemeral posts! ;)”

Took me a few days to download FB's Poke App, but one thing's for sure. I no longer need to be convinced of the value of ephemeral posts! ;)—
Randi Zuckerberg (@randizuckerberg) December 26, 2012

By: Marsha Anderson

Marsha Anderson — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:02:11 +0000

it does not matter who you are, you cannot tell people what to share on a platform that was designed for sharing

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:48:52 +0000

“Wait, you mean if I post something on the internet it might be seen by people I didn’t want to see it.” Easy mistake, how was she supposed to know this about the internet. It’s not like she knows anyone that deals with technology.

By: Nannie

Nannie — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:54:15 +0000

That sounds like a winning proposition to me!