Originally Posted by kristen0112
How handy is that now I can easily find a friends phone number. FB only has or shares information that YOU supply them with. It only publishes things that YOU have given it permission to tell. Your friends have chosen to Share that information with their friends. How is that a violation? How is that scary? If you don't want 'your stuff' shown don't share it. By the way everything you post or share on QB can be searched for and found on GOOGLE.COM. If you are all concerned that someone you don't know may read or see your stuff you should probably get off the internet altogether.
if it only publishes the info that you give it permission to give, why are so many people so unhappy? apparently lots of people did not know that their privacy was being so invaded. they had to be supplied with an opt-out in order to regain what privacy they thought they had. the numbers were published without permission.
facebook has a long history of being very free with its members' information. yes, it's true that you tell it lots of this, but that does not give permission to print it publicly. when you joined this forum, you gave the board information that was not shared with the members here. if you want to share that information, you do it yourself. also, while it's true that you can look up a great deal about other people online, the fact is that you have to search it out. no one is handing it to you unasked. as far as this forum, google only repeats what is said on open, public posts, and you have to go looking. by reading the posts here, you'd be hard pressed to know my phone number, not that you couldn't look it up in the phone book, but no one here is publishing it.
facebook gets in trouble quite a lot for this reason and is why i dropped out after 2 months. it's also very easy to hack into, according to the new york times, which i trust more than facebook.
not to mention that it also often gets information screwed up when people have the same name. also both of my children ran photos of themselves (2 different last names) and both ended up labeled as people they never heard of.
my feeling is that people who want to talk to me can email or call. and vice versa. nobody needs to know the minutiae of my life.