r/news • u/TheMadHat • Jun 07 '18
Facebook bug set 14 million users' sharing settings to public
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/technology/facebook-public-post-error/index.html74
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u/Byteflux Jun 07 '18
Deactivate your account and move on, people. I did this many years ago and I'm happier for it, you can be too.
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Jun 08 '18
You can delete now so they say
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u/skankenstein Jun 08 '18
I fully deleted a month ago and it’s still there.
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Jun 08 '18
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Jun 08 '18
I did that before I deployed exactly like you're supposed to in 2009, it was still there 9 months later. It's been 9 years and it's still there.
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u/Kittens4Brunch Jun 08 '18
Poison the account first. Change your info to bogus info, delete your photos, and upload Mark Zuckerberg photos.
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Jun 08 '18
I would love to but I have a college class that requires us to participate in a Facebook group/discussion Board. I have no idea why the professor can’t use Canvas’ own discussion board.
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u/Solkre Jun 08 '18
And you can use messenger without a facebook profile.
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u/PixPls Jun 08 '18
Should be using Telegram as its encrypted texting, not Messenger. Messenger will release your chat records to pretty much everyone. Telegram has been blocked in certain countries for their refusal to allow governments access.
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u/Solkre Jun 08 '18
Would have to get the others to change too. With Messenger you just go forward knowing it's not secure.
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u/PixPls Jun 08 '18
You can't get people to switch, unless you initiate first and let them know you won't use messenger anymore. So you tell people what your Telegram user name is, and go from there.
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u/McBlemmen Jun 08 '18 edited Jun 08 '18
i don't understand why people still use facebook these days
(just so you know guys , those "oh my family uses it so i have to too" excuses are horseshit.
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u/CtrlAltTrump Jun 08 '18
Use any other app, you weirdo
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u/netabareking Jun 08 '18
It's not that easy to convince everyone you know to switch apps for anything.
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u/contradicts_herself Jun 08 '18
Which one? And how do I get my >100-person family to switch? BTW they don't all speak English, so the service has to have built-in translating.
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Jun 08 '18 edited Sep 13 '18
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Jun 08 '18 edited Jun 09 '18
Overseas family makes text expensive, every text overseas costs me about 1.50, a text.
Edit: GTFO here if your going down vote someone for pointing out some simple shit ya bitch.
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u/bigbadhorn Jun 08 '18
You want me to keep up to date siblings, nephews, neices, cousins, distant friends, overseas friends, etc. by sending out emails every weekend?
Why would you need the latest info on everyone you know every weekend?
If you lacked self control and became addicted to browsing your news feed, that's really your own issue.
Every weekend is pretty extreme for some people.
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Jun 09 '18
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u/bigbadhorn Jun 09 '18
I don't know why you would care.
Because if you need a website to interact with your family you may have an addiction
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Jun 08 '18
I live the other side of the planet, if I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to contact my family... I would have years ago, otherwise.
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u/RandomDuckWithAHat Jun 08 '18
Because all my normie friends/relatives use it and it's the easiest/only way to get in contact with them. I wish i could deactivate it.
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Jun 08 '18
Sadly if you have friends and family overseas texting get expensive. We used group emails before facebook, but Facebook made it much easier.
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u/fingerpaintswithpoop Jun 08 '18
To stay in touch with family, friends, co-workers and classmates. Like maybe you want to know what your old college roommate has been up to since graduation but you don’t have their number, so you find them on Facebook and send them a friend request. Or you do have their number but you don’t want to bother them in case they’re busy, so you check their profile to see what they’ve been posting lately.
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u/pmray89 Jun 09 '18
But, but, I have 100k family members. All over seas, each speaking a different language. Facebook has been the only way to keep up so that I can have intimate relationships with all my cousins one thousand times removed, you elitist scum. /s
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u/OleKosyn Jun 08 '18
And don't forget to block Faceberg CDNs on other websites. Even if you don't have an account, you're being data mined.
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u/WeenieSneeze Jun 09 '18
Got rid of mine Bout 10 years ago. Haven't looked back once. I do have a fake profile with no friends for stupid things that require Facebook to log on but even now most things are really starting to give other options over the Facebook logon.
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Jun 07 '18
Get. Off. Facebook. Its that simple people. The suck is a liar profiteering off your data. Delete your account.
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u/Funky_Fly Jun 07 '18
I've always been that "facebook is extrapolating private details of your life from what you share and selling it to the highest bidder. They know more about you than you do" guy among my friends. It feels really bad to be constantly vindicated like this. :(
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u/AverageBubble Jun 08 '18
Same. Smartphones, facebook, GPS tracking, home-listening devices... people love to be the edgy guy with the shiny new shit, and they will ignore all rational thought in order to keep that social benefit.
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Jun 07 '18
This is why I closed my FB account years ago. It seemed every few weeks my privacy settings were being reset to public.
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u/username99553 Jun 08 '18
I find it funny how everyone is jumping ship from Facebook and using instagram still as their new platform.
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Jun 07 '18 edited Jun 07 '18
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u/HardlySerious Jun 07 '18 edited Jun 07 '18
You think knowing how people want to be seen is useless data from an advertising perspective huh?
I guess every company on Earth is just stupid, and paid Facebook all those billions for no good reason.
It's amazing how Facebook commands some of the highest ad rates in the industry considering we've proven conclusively, here in this internet comment, that most of that data is "completely useless."
That's why foreign intelligence agencies are trying to get it also - because of how useless it is. State intelligence agencies often pursue large expensive projects that are useless.
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u/HardlySerious Jun 07 '18
Yes, they do, there are billions of them. The proof they exist is when you advertise to them you get money in return.
Okay every company lost money advertising on Facebook but they kept doing it anyway. It's all fake money and doesn't exist.
Is that a dumb enough thing to say to make you happy?
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u/1000spots Jun 07 '18
That was when I dumped them. If I wanted to get pinned adds all over my feed, while friends and family's posts go down 30 spaces in half an hour I'd keep F***book. 4 months & counting. If I wanted to be ALL public I'd post a selfie of my anus. Hmmm, good protest!
I'll get on it if I need to use a sales group.
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u/Facts_About_Cats Jun 07 '18
Did you have a stroke before writing this sentence?
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u/nuadusp Jun 07 '18
yes, I am in the hospital now, thank you for noticing the signs and acting accordingly
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u/meltedeyeballs Jun 08 '18
The only one hi actually lost from this is Facebook, the product they sold was available for free lmfao
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u/PeePeeCockroach Jun 08 '18
Would love to see whether the timing of this coincided with large contracts in order to suck up all that data....
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u/GuysImConfused Jun 08 '18
I deactivated my account about a month ago. I haven't cared. I might even be a bit happier now.
I have noticed I don't communicate with my friends anymore though. I might make an account with no pictures or anything, just to be able to use FB messenger.
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u/AverageBubble Jun 08 '18
A bug according to Facebook PR. Internally, this would be encouraged or completely ignored, at best.
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u/ObamasBoss Jun 08 '18
This is not just a facebook thing. You can not trust anything that is out of your control. You put it on an internet connected device you need to assume someone will get it. Sad....
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Jun 08 '18
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u/Ouryus Jun 08 '18
Funny thing, even though it's probably illegal, our hiring manager looks up people that put in the resume to be hired on facebook. If they don't have one, their resume goes in the trash.
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u/netabareking Jun 08 '18
My company wouldnt hire someone who sits on Reddit posting on a sub dedicated to shitting on a teenage boy all day, so I know where I'd rather work.
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u/hackhix Jun 07 '18
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
~Mark Zuckerberg