It really bugs me how Facebook's MO seems to be to make every new feature opt-out, and often awkward to do so, in order to gain traction.<p>For example I can't even find a way to prevent people adding me to groups, other than outright de-friending them. That's a little nuclear for over-enthusiastic family members.<p>I suppose they'll add one later, after they are able to announce how millions of users are using the new groups feature.
The criticism over Facebook's opt-out trend in new features is definitely warranted, but Forbes' editors continue to go for reader-baiting titles.<p>This story "Zuckerberg quits NAMBLA," and "Facebook Billionaire Explains Why He Backs Prop 19" from yesterday are great examples of perfectly fine stories made needlessly sensational in order to get attention. I'm guessing most people wouldn't think of any name _but_ Zuckerberg's when asked to name a Facebook billionaire.
What about spammers/hackers? This seems like a goldmine for them. One account compromised now means 500 people added to a group against their will with all of THEIR friends seeing it in the news-feed.
One thing I've found irritating about the facebook privacy system is that it seems to apply differently to Zuckerberg's own profile. It isn't possible for me to see a list of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zucks" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/zucks</a> friends, for example. But I can't prevent people outside my network viewing my own friends list.
Am I missing something obvious?
If it's a privacy setting that's useful to him, it's a feature he should expose to the rest of us too!
Honestly, I have not seen a different in FB since this change. Groups look a little different but that is about it.<p>Is it that no one has attempted to add me to any groups without me knowing?
Google and Facebook are both doing this: Make an unpopular, privacy decreasing, and probably mandatory change, then say "If you don't like it, you're doing something wrong [Having prank-pulling friends, wanting privacy, etc]."<p>I've already changed my name, increased my privacy settings and removed my photos on Facebook... It's a damned fine product, if its administration didn't insist on making people give things up against their will.