Indiscriminate Sharing

While the social network is in a way similar to real world associations, the way sharing works on Facebook is completely disconnected from reality. In the real world, you don’t have information that you need to share with every single person you know. But that’s how it works on Facebook, unless you jump through hoops […]

Facebook Removes Comment Permission Settings

In their latest batch of privacy control changes, Facebook is removing the setting which allowed a user to disable comments on their account. Read about it on their Dig Into the Details page. Here’s a screenshot:

With the change, if you can read a post on Facebook, you can comment on it. There is no other option. This may be the last straw for me. I’ve already been so close to deleting my account. Have I ever mentioned how much I fucking hate Facebook?