Facebook Has an Identity Crisis
Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 14th, 2007 10:30 AMWell not Facebook exactly, it is more the cause of my own identity crisis. My online identity is being rapidly distributed around the web with each click of “Add Application” that I make. Every time that I decide to add an application to my profile, I am sharing all of my personal information with those developers that theoretically can do whatever they’d like (even though Facebook has rules against that in their Terms of Service). My primary concern is that Facebook is not truly concerned with the personal information of their users. This is a major issue because I value my personal information and Facebook should as well, especially since personal information is one of their most valuable assets. So when I go to remove an application, how can I be assured that my information is being removed from the application developer’s database? I can’t. Any thoughts on this? Will this be the downfall of the Facebook development platform, or do users just not care?
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June 14th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Hey,
Frankly I think you are overreacting, from what i’ve seen from developing there is little to no ways to actually store facebook users information without jumping through some major hoops and using a lot of processing power. It’s not out of the question, but trying to raise a stir about silly things on a blog wouldn’t help the cause much…
June 14th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Hey Charlie,
While I may be overreacting, there aren’t major hoops to jump through to receive user data. I know this given that I’ve developed an app of my own already.
Best,
Nick
June 14th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Hey,
Frankly I think you are overreacting, from what i’ve seen from developing there is little to no ways to actually store facebook users information without jumping through some major hoops and using a lot of processing power. It’s not out of the question, but trying to raise a stir about silly things on a blog wouldn’t help the cause much…
June 14th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Hey Charlie,
While I may be overreacting, there aren’t major hoops to jump through to receive user data. I know this given that I’ve developed an app of my own already.
Best,
Nick
June 14th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Nick, what kind of user data did you receive when you developed an app of your own?
June 14th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Oh you know, social security number, home address, height, weight, etc.
No … seriously I didn’t collect anything except the people’s user id. If i really wanted to I had easy access to all their profile info except for their email address.
June 14th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Nick, what kind of user data did you receive when you developed an app of your own?
June 14th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Oh you know, social security number, home address, height, weight, etc.
No … seriously I didn’t collect anything except the people’s user id. If i really wanted to I had easy access to all their profile info except for their email address.