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Facebook and its privacy problems

anon@indymedia.org (jonas walker) | 01.10.2011 02:55 | London

Following the F8 conference, many of the voices that advocate privacy on the net, have spoken out against the changes that came to Facebook, which allow applications to share "every movement" of their users, adding to these voices an audit of the social network privacy could be carried out shortly as published by Financial Times.

While to some extent I fully agree with the unpleasant it may be that applications want to share everything you do on Facebook, I again ask how someone was forced to go to Facebook and install the applications?, I'm sure no, so the power of Facebook on our privacy, we have given us, and if it is true that some measures of Facebook are not pleasant at all, we always have the option to change us right?

Now, some elements of Facebook, even when we have accepted (many sure we did not even notice that was what we accept), are definitely not ethical to the opinion of many, and before that, the authorities would do much good to investigate thoroughly ... at least I would like to delete my account (if you want in the future) with the ability to import all the content that got on the page, and leaving nothing for you to use Facebook. In the end how many occasions we have not been tagged in a photo that really did not want to appear on Facebook?

My proposal is this: If you like Facebook, because they have to like everything that includes (at the end is not our business), and if we install applications and accept the terms to share everything, we do not panic if we realize that on our profile appears later what we are reading, doing, playing (whatever that is).

If you do not like Facebook, insist that the move to Google Plus (no need to close Facebook), but if they feel that Google Plus growth and begins to see that Facebook is not invincible, thinking maybe put a little more users.