Just happened yesterday. Something was posted on my News Feed with absolutely NO WAY to retrieve it… that killed.

I can see your point, with what you say. Add a lot of this “omgs” and people are REALLY going to react. Better they find out now and not later, when it is too late.

So many issues…

In the ultimate irony I joined that group against this practice (and now she’ll know that too)…

In the ultimate irony I joined that group against this practice (and now she’ll know that too)

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It’s shame that it seemed to take a report from TechCrunch to get some action taken on this issue, as I’ve been raising concern in the developer forums, bug reports, and a Facebook group for a while now. Still, seeing any action is a start.

I actually hope that the change in wording will raise awareness of the issue, as now that users aren’t being told it will prevent anyone from seeing the story, they may make more of a fuss about the fact that you can’t prevent people from seeing it.

Just cannot understand why the media is keeping quiet about this…

Jason, Thanks for posting this as an update to the previous story.

I agree about the privacy issue being the ‘real story’ here. But I suspect that changing the way that Mini-Feed and News Feed interact will take longer than a few days – they seem to be pretty complex. The change in wording is hopefully just a temporary fix (if you can call it that).

This is one of Facebook’s more important features (a key differentiator to other social networking sites), so I think it is important for them to find out how people feel about this.

So, if anyone is reading this from Facebook then please fix this ASAP, or I would consider closing my account… j/k, but please put this fix at the top of your enhancement list…

Heck, that may even be part of their business plan, to completely mediate users’ relationships for advertising purposes. Think about it, if FB is the gatekeeper of information between friends, then they can insert whatever they want between them. They’d be stupid not to use that power (which they are demonstrating to have preserved with this story) for advertising.

Not quite true, Jason. We can debate whether users should have a way to control individual stories, but they can prevent pretty much anything from appearing in the news feed by category via their privacy settings. If you want to say, take yourself out of a relationship without broadcasting it, uncheck “Remove my Relationship Status” on this page.

Actually, there was a pretty strong response to the previous story on this. The miscommunication between Facebook and its users is a big deal, and the fact that they’ve taken notice of the issue is certainly worthy of a story.

And I’m afraid I have no secret agenda. Mark Zuckerberg isn’t even my Facebook friend

I think a good solution would be to give people a “pseudo” profile view where (while logged into your account) you can have the option to see your profile/feed as if you were your:

a) Friend
b) Network
c) Any facebook user
d) Public

This way you’ll know exactly is being shown/posted.

Will this happen? I seriously doubt it.

Until then, I will try to grasp what I can from the privacy controls since I want to use facebook more instead of trying to handle twittering, flickr uploads, vimeo uploads, IM away messages, blog posts etc etc it just gets out of hand…

Thanks Techcrunch for the article.

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