Facebook Forces Users to Display Hometown, Work, Interests
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010 (No comments yet) | Internet, Privacy |
Looks like they're doing it again. This time, they've made a change where even information you've set to private will be fully visible to strangers.
Today, Facebook removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users' profiles, "including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests" will now be transformed into "connections," meaning that they will be shared publicly. If you don't want these parts of your profile to be made public, your only option is to delete them.
Of course, this doesn't affect me since my REAL friends already know all that stuff so I saw no reason to enter it into Facebook in the first place, but if you or someone you know has it, tell them to pull it down or put in fake data instead. Why broadcast information to strangers hoping that none of them will use it against you?
Update
It looks like Lifehacker posted an article on how to restore your privacy after the change. Check it out
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