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Facebook is binning a feature that lets people retain their anonymity on the social network. The retirement of the "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" privacy setting was announced by the company on Thursday. It means anyone can find the profile of someone else through the search bar. People used to be able to make …

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      ...If you post anonymously here...

      Is "deadmonkey" your real first name or your real surname, and have you thought about suing your parents for the childhood abuse they inflicted on you with such a name?

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  2. FuzzyTheBear
    Big Brother

    Just close it

    I mean .. the users get ripped off , spied on , checked , their data relayed to the agencies etc etc .. privacy bla bla .. i mean .. how much more abuse do you need before you just shut down your accounts ? Hurt them back and just cut the umbilical. It's time to cut off the morphine drip that feeds their bank accounts. They make profits out of your data , the service is their data collecting tool , have they ever gave you a cent for your participation in this money making scheme ? FB is the rip off of the century.

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  3. Amorous Cowherder
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    Nothing wrong with Facebook....

    .,...just like the rest of the internet, don't share anything you wouldn't share without your worst enemy!

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    1. sabroni Silver badge
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      Re: don't share anything you wouldn't share without your worst enemy!

      Sharing is more fun with your worst enemy!

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  4. GotThumbs

    When you get something for Free....

    ....It will always turn out to be Not what you were expecting/wanting.

    I think FB should offer of an option for people to PAY a monthly fee for the service and in return, they keep the privacy option and are also excluded from Ads. Make a Pay for service option.

    Personally, I never joined and this is EXACTLY the reason.

    IMO, It's pure ignorance to think posting your personal information on the web using a FREE service and expecting your information/content will remain secure/private. If its on the web, it's public. Period.

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  5. Social Thinker

    Divorced!

    Some may be surprised at this development as many have forgotten the circumstances under which Facebook was created- Mark wanted to get back at his girlfriend and humiliate some girls in his dorm. This evolved into a billion dollar idea and the rest is history. Facebook was not a child of some Nobel prize winning social engineering theory. So I think people should not be alarmed at the removal of privacy settings. In fact we should be making an effort to be less emotionally attached to this social network. Bring down the Facebook hormones by a few notch?

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  6. Infernoz Bronze badge
    Big Brother

    Whatever suckers

    I'm too smart to throw away my privacy or time on that glass walled, voyeur, ad-viper pit, for worthless, virtual, fake socialisation.

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  7. raving angry loony

    End of the line.

    My account was disabled - and I've been so much more productive since doing so three months ago! All this news has done is prompted me to request the account be deleted. Of course, I have to *reactivate* my deactivated account so that I could ask for it to be deactivated and removed, but that's Facebook for you.

    So just from a productivity standpoint, I'd say deleting my Facebook account was a huge win there. If they hadn't been such scum about balancing profit vs privacy I might not have done so. So all I can say is that these policies may just be a good idea really. Those who don't value any form of privacy probably deserve everything they're about to receive.

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  8. Henry Wertz 1 Gold badge

    If you value privacy, DON'T USE FACEBOOK

    if you value any privacy, DON'T USE FACEBOOK. You can put your most personal details on Facebook, marked with every possibly privacy option for just a few friends to see, and Zuckerburg *will* screw you over sooner or later and give that info out to everybody.

    I have a FB account, only used for single sign on (so if I want to comment on some blog or something I do not need to make a new account). My age, and the college I graduated from (which I now think I should not have given them either.) No photo, no personal information, no posts, no answer to the friend's requests. FB is getting nothing from me.

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  9. Vociferous

    FAKE ACCOUNTS!

    You need three accounts: one squeaky clean under your own name for family and work, one under your nickname for your mates, and one completely fake for use everywhere else. And never, ever, cross the beams!

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    1. Adrian 4
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      Re: FAKE ACCOUNTS!

      Why do you 'need' more than zero accounts ?

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  10. Anonymous Coward
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    Me? I just pick up the phone or pop around to my friends. I have real ones you see.

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    1. Sarah Balfour
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      Lucky you! SOME of us don't have that luxury - I don't have ANY friends at all! I don't have the first fucking CLUE what people ARE, and much less how to interact with them. No idea at all. Apparently I'm autistic, but even other autistic people are an enigma to me - and I to them.

      I honestly, truthfully believe that I am different from every single other person on Earth; there isn't a single other person on this planet who'd understand me, and who I would understand. I VERY much doubt there EVER has been - or EVER will be.

      Okay, you can ring the nearest nuthouse now...

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  11. chrisp1141

    Freedom to choose

    You have the freedom to choose what sites you use. It turns out that there are some really goods sites that have been addressing the issue of privacy: Ravetree, DuckDuckGo, HushMail, and many others. I don't use facebook, and I'm definitely not going to use google+, because they are such bad violators of our privacy.

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  12. Dick Pountain

    It ain't that difficult - just think of Facebook as not like telephoning someone but more like standing on the highstreet. Don't do anything you wouldn't do there. You can show your pictures to passers-by, but perhaps don't show them your todger?And you *will* see ads in shop windows and on passing busses.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      @Dick Pountain

      I agree with your post with one exception: Facebook is like standing on the high street of every town in the developed world and many of the towns in the rest of the world, simultaneously.

      This is what many people don't get, because deep down inside we are still apes who can't get our heads around the idea of more than about 130 other apes existing in the entire world.

      Hence the people who post highly embarrassing stuff, and then tell interviewers that they didn't realise that people they didn't know could see it.

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  13. RW

    Yet another reason not to use FB.

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  14. dervheid

    Good

    ...bye-eee, Good bye-eee,

    Stick your site, from whence you shite, how the fuck do you sleep at night.

    We need a ' get it up ye' icon.

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  15. Jamie Jones Silver badge
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    Here come the downvotes.....

    I haven't used Facebook in a few years, but the information on my account is accurate.

    Most of it is generally set to public - if there is anything I would consider private, I'd never post it to a public internet site anyway.

    As for the "personal" information , it's nothing that 100's of people in my village don't know already.

    Facebook articles appear to bring out commentators with an overflated sense of importance, and obviously no experience of living in a community.

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  16. bag o' spanners
    Devil

    Send for CAPSLOCK!. For 'tis surely the end of days!

    .

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  17. Sarah Balfour
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    Wish I could!

    Whilst I'd LOVE to be able to tell Fuckerberg to 'Zuck my dick' (metaphorically, obviously!) as a severely autistic person suffering from a chronic illness, it's simply not possible. FB and Twatter really ARE my only connections with the rest of the human race at the mo (as much as I LOATHE social networking of ANY kind, as I don't possess the social and interpersonal skills necessary, I'm forever accidentally offending and/or annoying people to the point where they block me - not their fault, and not mine, I was kept in solitary confinement (yes, really!) by the nuns at the minor public convent school to which my parents insisted on sending me, because public school is just what we do in this family. I was 'the devil's daughter' according to Attila The Nun (head) and she pulled me out of the dinner queue when I was around 5/6 and announced to the entire (pre)prep that they'd "burn in hell" if they had any contact with me as I was "evil" and I'd "corrupt" them! Maybe there were decent nuns around in the '70s/'80s, but I never met any of 'em!). I wasn't allowed contact with anyone until I entered the upper school at 11, by which time the damage had been done. That school DESTROYED me! I begged and begged to leave, but I wasn't allowed (I blame Dad's mother for that - she thought she was the queen (to this day, I'm the only one in this family who is staunchly republican - my sister ripped me to shreds last summer when I refused to attend any jubilee bollox!)).

    So I'm a sitting duck for the NSA (and whatever the Nazis are doing over here). I go through periods of not using it (enforced isolation because I'm trying to prevent myself putting pressure on people. I can't help it when I DESPERATELY NEED someone on my side - I end up putting so much pressure on them I drive them away. I can't help it, I KNOW it's not normal, but that doesn't mean I can stop it from happening. Right now, I need someone who can help me get my health back, because the NHS is refusing me treatment because *I* refuse to take bad advice (and it's not only BAD advice, it's advice that will exacerbate my health issues and give me others to cope with on top!). It's been over 2 years and I'm stuck in bed becoming weaker and weaker as the days go by - worse still, I'm living with my parents who seem to be content to let me suffer). Support here for people like me is non-existent, it ALL ceases once you hit 18.

    Sorry, I'm ranting, it happens (a lot!). That's why I read here and rarely - if ever - comment. Apologies if I've offended anyone. :*o( <3

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  18. Anonymous Coward
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    And my friends foster child was in tears on the phone with me last night as they've got to close their facebook acount down as they didn't want their family to find them.

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