So I just closed my Facebook account of several years today.
Why? Quite simply: I'm tired of Facebook's constant arrogance and effectively saying "but of course you want to opt into this feature, don't you want your friends to know even more about you?"
They've just launched their new Places feature, which primarily uses your phone's GPS feature to track your movements. While this particular part is opt-in, what's more concerning is that you're automatically opted in to the part which allows your friends to broadcast your known location themselves.
My big problem is, I shouldn't keep on having to re-check my privacy settings on a monthly basis. I should be able to set something that says "default off" for all their new anti-privacy features and leave it at that. Instead I have to be acutely aware of everything Facebook does in case information about me ends up there which I really don't want to reveal!
So there's my rant for the day. Anyone else got serious gripes about Facebook they want to vent?
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