November 29, 2007
What did you order? Whoops.
Currently, when Facebook members buy items like movie tickets or shoes (or whatever) on participating e-commerce sites, news of those purchases are sent to the members’ friends. According to Mediapost, “after three weeks of increasingly loud protests, Facebook is reportedly considering retooling its controversial Beacon program, which notifies members about their friends’ purchases.” What, you say? You didn’t know Facebook was sharing your purchases with your friends? Mediapost says, “Members have an opportunity to decline to share that information, but the opt-out system is seriously flawed, with users not seeing the opt-outs and/or not understanding that doing nothing means Facebook will share information about their purchases.” And you were worried that your REAL age showed up in your profile, silly.
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