Comments on: Facebook Loses Members’ Notification Settings. What Will They Lose Next?

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:59:39 +0000

It’s not a simple case of backing up a single database. They probably either have corrupted backups, corrupted data or have changed the way it works in such a way that copying over the data would not be worth the cost.

By: To Facebook or not to Facebook?

To Facebook or not to Facebook? — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:37:03 +0000

[...] My second concern is regarding the way facebook is handling the data. In November 2008 FB lost all the preferences data and asked user to set there preferences once again. What if they lose some other relevant data or expose this data to some groups. As far as data loss goes, this isn’t that big a deal. The only data that Facebook lost was preference data, not any messages, photos, videos, or the like. But preference data is also important. What if Facebook had lost everyone’s privacy settings instead of just their e-mail notification settings? It would be (slightly) more serious. – TechCrunch [...]

By: Akila

Akila — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:36:58 +0000

I received the same email on 25th Nov 2008
http://akilakal...e-my-email.html

By: annette

annette — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:37:41 +0000

i second that

By: fb10038369

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:52:16 +0000

I thought this was really annoying. They need an “all off” option, for crying out loud! It’s great that they have very granular controls, but what if you don’t need email from them at all?

By: Trusting In The Cloud: A Call For Post-Mortem As Facebook Loses Notification Settings :: HTMList.com

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:56:54 +0000

[...] first read about Facebook having lost some user’s notification settings on TechCrunch four days ago. This was worrisome to me, but I got sick over the weekend and didn’t have a [...]

By: Federal Facebook « Changing Way

Federal Facebook « Changing Way — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:02:30 +0000

[...] Another context for the Facebook Connect ambitions is provided by the story of Facebook’s having to tell some of its users that their email notification settings had been lost. Erick at TechCrunch advises: Don’t put anything on Facebook you’d hate to lose (or reveal to the world, for that matter). [...]

By: acai berry diet

acai berry diet — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:48:35 +0000

forget that work on facebook ads

By: Jimmy Krankie

Jimmy Krankie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:29:01 +0000

I am 99% sure that facebook has changed my privacy settings in the past without my authorization. I suddenly became discoverable after pointedly making sure only friends could search for me.

By: B

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:59:31 +0000

They didn’t LOSE anything. They used this as a cover to RESET everyone’s MARKETING preferences so they can make lots of $$$. People don’t care if it’s unstable, they’ll keep using it, only now they can get spammed with ads.

By: richcasto

richcasto — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:54:26 +0000

I received the notification a couple of times but my settings actually had NOT changed.

By: joker400

joker400 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:57:58 +0000

This was funny. i happened to me, but i think it is still facebook is good, unless they lose something else .

By: Facebook verliert seine Userdaten | KlonBlog

Facebook verliert seine Userdaten | KlonBlog — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:03:13 +0000

[...] handelte es sich nur um Einstellungen bzgl. der E-Mail-Benachrichtigungen … aber was ist es nächstes Mal? Die Privatssphäre-Einstellungen? Unfortunately, your email notification settings have been lost. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:05:11 +0000

Something like 1-2% of all Facebook users opposed the interface. Hardly a “large” percentage. Secondly, they had the option to switch back for several months before the changes were made, to get used to the new interface.

Do you know how much money it would cost, and how limiting and inconvenient it would be to host TWO versions of a huge website like Facebook? It’s just not feasible. The new interface is an update, it makes the UI faster and easier to use. It comes down to people lacking common sense that don’t like it because they don’t know how to use it.

By: billso

billso — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:40:16 +0000

Did Facebook put the interns in charge of the servers this weekend? EPIC. FAIL.

By: George

George — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:55:04 +0000

This was funny. Why couldn’t Facebook have the default for all these settings be Off instead of On? Oh, because then they wouldn’t be able to spam you if you forgot to change your settings back to what you want. Silly.

Stop being naive people, this is obviously a massive strategy to boost traffic even more by silently being able to spam members due to “data loss”.

If it wasn’t, they could have assuaged everyone by setting the notifications to Off instead of On.

By: Justin Ried

Justin Ried — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:53:44 +0000

It was here, too… until today. It seems that more people were added to the list after the initial batch.

By: Capri

Capri — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:28:12 +0000

It’s probably a server glitch or coding gone wrong. I didn’t click the site in the email, but went to my Facebook directly, and was notified there that my email notify settings were lost. Went in and reset them, and am getting notifies once again. Go figure.

By: Ersatz

Ersatz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:46:40 +0000

>The lesson here: Don’t put anything on Facebook you’d hate to lose (or reveal to the world, for that matter).

In other news, blue sky is blue.

By: kia

kia — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:18:51 +0000

Didn’t happen to me at all. My settings are still all the same.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:55:55 +0000

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By: Salil

Salil — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:40:35 +0000

I REALLY doubt why did they keep the default settings as ON. They should have kept them OFF!

By: carlos

carlos — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:08 +0000

I think they did this “mistake” to let more people turn on the new “birthday reminder” released a few weeks ago

By: Jim DeSantis

Jim DeSantis — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:40:12 +0000

This tech stuff drives me nuts! Just when you get things working smoothly…zap…you’re screwed by anonymous propeller heads or their bosses who order them to screw users.

I went through Blogger.com hell for months while they used us a guinea pigs and now Facebook? Is Facebook doing the same?

Whatever the reason (motive?) just go away for a while. Let them learn a lesson. Eventually things will get back to normal.