It is now widespread news that facebook <i>may</i> have leaked old private messages. Facebook has denied this, claiming that “Facebook engineers examined the situation and confirmed that the messages in question were old postings, which had previously been visible on the users' profiles” (http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/935300.aspx). I and several friends have confirmed that the leak is infact real, we have found some of our previous chats being displayed publicly on our timelines and the timeline of friends.<p>HN: How would you react to this? Forget it as a mistake or is it time to move away from facebook?
That...is a really loaded question.<p>Like many people have mentioned, no one offered any proof that the "leaked" messages were actually private, rather than wall-to-wall posts that they <i>assumed</i> were private.
No. I don't trust Facebook, but then again, I haven't trusted Facebook in a long time (which is why I deleted my account).<p>Except that my account isn't deleted even when Facebook said they would after 14 days. That's just one example.<p>But the reason why the very liberty of citizens of the United States is under threat is because people aren't willing to stand up to what is right if it's inconvenient for them. They will instead rationalize and look for more proof and stick their heads in the sand.<p>HN is chock full of these people.
I never "trusted" facebook in the first place. There is always a tacit understanding, in my opinion, in using free services, that they control the data that you put in there. As long as you use the service with that in mind, you're good. I never used facebook much, but even in the PM, I would never write anything more than a "hey, how are you? can I drop you an email?".....
I hate to bash fb but the truth is that it keeps spamming me at my <i>old</i> email asking me to join fb even though I am already a fb member using a <i>new</i> email.And these are not 2 different accounts. All I did was to update my email address.
if you still trust facebook after all the changes they've made to the privacy system, i don't see why lying about this should change much. i think many facebook users (and almost certainly the majority here on hn) use facebook because that's what their friends and family are talking on, but don't trust it.