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: If you use FACEBOOK please read! Those sneaky bastards!


TheKingdom2000
11-30-2010, 03:48 PM
As of some time ago (acrophobia), NEW PRIVACY setting called "Instant personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Enable."

To Disable
> Go to Account
> Privacy Settings
> Applications and Websites - "Edit your settings" (bottom row)
> Instant Personalization
> Edit or ...customize Settings
> Un-check "Enable".

BTW, if your friends don't do this, they will be sharing information about you. PLEASE COPY & REPOST

This is Facebook's explanation of the "Instant Personalization" feature;
Our goal is to give you a great social and personalized experience with every application and website you use. We've worked with a select set of partners to personalize your experience as soon as you arrive on their sites.

These partner sites (currently limited to Bing, Rotten Tomatoes, Docs, Pandora, Yelp, and Scribd), can only access the information and content you've already made available to everyone. All our partners are required to respect your information and we've worked closely with them to make sure they do.

When you arrive at one of these sites, you'll see a notification message and a way to turn off the personalized experience on that site.

Instant personalization is different from social plugins. Social plugin content comes directly from Facebook and no information is shared with the websites themselves.

To turn off instant personalization on all partner sites, uncheck the box below. This will prevent these partners from receiving any of your information through instant personalization, even content you have made available to everyone.

acrophobia
11-30-2010, 03:53 PM
I received the same message months ago, this did not happen today.

Our personal info ends up all over the place anyways, hence the amount of spam mail that we receive.

Presto
11-30-2010, 03:55 PM
Thanks... i reposted this info on my FB feed.

twitchyzero
11-30-2010, 03:58 PM
this is why i hate facebook changes..especially if it's privacy updates it seems to always default having our personal info floating around and i'm oblivious to it until some months down the road.

TheKingdom2000
11-30-2010, 03:59 PM
I received the same message months ago, this did not happen today.

Our personal info ends up all over the place anyways, hence the amount of spam mail that we receive. Nothing to get worked up about.

oops sorry. my friend said it happened today. I just assumed it happened today.
my bad. edited post.

acrophobia
11-30-2010, 04:30 PM
oops sorry. my friend said it happened today. I just assumed it happened today.
my bad. edited post.

No worries. I periodically check all my settings on fb and maximize privacy to prevent any issues.

Lomac
11-30-2010, 04:38 PM
Damn FaceTwat.

jigga250
11-30-2010, 05:17 PM
mine was disabled already :wooha:

insomniac
11-30-2010, 05:35 PM
theres a few sites i use this feature for tho.. tumblr, formspring, omgpop ect.. but i also hate these new changes.. wtf is this see friendship shit i miss the wall to wall...

PiuYi
11-30-2010, 05:45 PM
i fucking hate fb, yet its social usefulness is unrivaled...

trancehead
11-30-2010, 06:10 PM
mine was disable by default

GabAlmighty
11-30-2010, 06:20 PM
Damn FaceTwat.

Jeff O'Neil?

Lomac
11-30-2010, 07:49 PM
Jeff O'Neil?

lol yup

Culture_Vulture
11-30-2010, 07:59 PM
These partner sites (currently limited to Bing, Rotten Tomatoes, Docs, Pandora, Yelp, and Scribd), can only access the information and content you've already made available to everyone

Wouldn't the easier solution to be stop sharing your private shit with every one?

Qmx323
11-30-2010, 08:02 PM
Says its not available to me yet.

Not enough friends?

:( :troll:

TOPEC
11-30-2010, 08:13 PM
thanks, but if this is true

BTW, if your friends don't do this, they will be sharing information about you. PLEASE COPY & REPOST


then i can see disabling it can only do so much because there will always be some dumb ass who could care less about it and not disable the feature.

ae101
12-01-2010, 11:52 PM
im not worried as 99% of the info & shit i say is either lies or BS as i never really care much about fb since it got gayer & gayer as changes & time went by

Mananetwork
12-02-2010, 02:44 AM
mine was disabled already :wooha:

Same here!

BNR32_Coupe
12-02-2010, 03:55 AM
These partner sites can only access the information and content you've already made available to everyone

Matlock
12-02-2010, 05:07 AM
I use this one to keep my privacy settings secure.
http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/

It tells you to make a bookmark > go to facebook > open book mark > scan settings and tells you what to fix

RouRK
12-02-2010, 10:03 AM
This is disabled because you turned off all platform applications..

Nightwalker
12-02-2010, 10:07 AM
Woah, you're way behind. This launched a while ago.

Mine was defaulted as disabled. I'll enable it when it gets more useful, I don't really go to the sites that use it so far.

Edit: Almost nothing is set for everyone to see anyway, guess it doesn't really matter.

6insomnia9
12-02-2010, 10:19 AM
That's why i don't use facebook.

Phil@rise
12-02-2010, 10:34 AM
Don't put to personal of information up and no harm is done. Its the internet for Christ sakes nothing is sacred here and it shocks me when people are offended for finding out otherwise.

StealthFighter
12-02-2010, 10:28 PM
Says its not available to me yet.

Not enough friends?

:( :troll:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VsRBTv1cR4I/TNHVuY_PVLI/AAAAAAAAAB4/d_6-MdSU53Q/s1600/forever_alone_face.png

CKLCKL
12-02-2010, 10:35 PM
fixed my settings

optiblue
12-04-2010, 09:53 PM
pfft... what's even scarier than this is amazon or ebay. They always have items on the bottom main page that interest me based on my previous purchases.

UnName
12-05-2010, 03:42 AM
just fixed mine