Dump your facebook accounts.

[AceInfinity]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/experimenting-privacy-facebook-sells-access-your-inbox

Experimenting with Your Privacy, Facebook Begins Selling Access to Your Inbox

Facebook recently started rolling out a new "experiment" that would allow any individual to pay a small fee to send a message to your inbox. Your Facebook messages page has two folders: "Inbox" and "Other." Currently, most friend and group messages go to the inbox, while messages from everyone else automatically go to the Other folder. Facebook is testing a feature that would make this no longer true: now anybody can pay ($1 is the latest rumor) to make sure her message goes straight to your inbox.

Even before this change, one could not have a private profile - all profiles are now searchable. But this new experiment takes it even further, where a stranger can not only find your profile, but ensure that a message reaches you.

Control is the key issue here. As we mentioned before in our analysis of Instagram's proposed Terms of Service change, we strongly believe that social networks should follow three key principals: informed decision making, control, and the right to leave.

It's not worth being a part of some larger 'game'; scam. Pisses me off even though I don't even use facebook. This should be a criminal act in my opinion. Being able to sell someone else's privacy without their written consent should be 100% illegal for anything. There's already too much of that going around with what is supposed to be secure information.

 

[A Guy]

"Today we're starting a small experiment to test the usefulness of economic signals to determine relevance," Menlo Park-based Facebook said. "This test will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message routed to the 'Inbox' rather than the 'Other' folder of a recipient that they are not connected with."

A Facebook spokesman said the charge for the test is $1 per message, but added that the company is still looking for the "optimum" price. Users can only receive one of these paid, re-routed messages per week, he noted.

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They snuck this in around a holiday. But you can bet there will be an uproar. I have an account, but don't use it. It's only for giveaways and liking certain things. Even so, I get all kinds of messages. A Guy

 

[AceInfinity]

If I were anybody, with the knowledge I have for what goes on behind the scenes on sites like this. I would not even subscribe to get email notifications to this site. If I did sign up, i'd have all my information virtually fake. This is the Eden of information for cyber people out there. People in quick reference to any of the guys out there with bad intentions when they connect to the internet, for lack of a general term.

It's one thing to know that your information is out there, that you may not want being released out to the farthest reaches of the web, but it's something entirely different to not know about the unknown.

This is out in the open, but what it says is that it's all about money. Not like it was when Facebook was first created. Google is getting fairly greedy as well with how much information they want to have control over, about you.

 

[Corrine]

That title is misleading. Facebook isn't selling access to anyone's Inbox. They are selling the ability to purchase the right to send messages to non-friends. Using the strict filter setting, the messages (like PMs) go to an "Other" folder rather than as they would in a private conversation with a friend. Apparently, the Other folder has been there all along.

Yes, the first thing is to use an alternate e-mail address. Unless you're a well known person who is using FB to publicize their work (i.e., Mark Russinovich), make your posts visible to friends only or even a custom list. Just like with Google and Hotmail, I refuse to list my cell phone as an alternate method of getting a password reset.

Of course, Facebook is about money. They aren't going to donate all that server space. When family members are spread across the U.S. & Canada, Facebook is a convenient way to share news and pictures.

A Guy, do you mean e-mail notices? I have my settings so I don't receive any e-mails.

 

[AceInfinity]

That title is misleading. Facebook isn't selling access to anyone's Inbox. They are selling the ability to purchase the right to send messages to non-friends. Using the strict filter setting, the messages (like PMs) go to an "Other" folder rather than as they would in a private conversation with a friend. Apparently, the Other folder has been there all along.

Yes, the first thing is to use an alternate e-mail address. Unless you're a well known person who is using FB to publicize their work (i.e., Mark Russinovich), make your posts visible to friends only or even a custom list. Just like with Google and Hotmail, I refuse to list my cell phone as an alternate method of getting a password reset.

Of course, Facebook is about money. They aren't going to donate all that server space. When family members are spread across the U.S. & Canada, Facebook is a convenient way to share news and pictures.

A Guy, do you mean e-mail notices? I have my settings so I don't receive any e-mails.

I know, but my point was not from that misconception. For $1 (rumored) you can PM anybody, even if they don't want to see messages from that person.

Of course, Facebook is about money. They aren't going to donate all that server space. When family members are spread across the U.S. & Canada, Facebook is a convenient way to share news and pictures.

I don't see a problem with that, I see a problem with it's wrong uses. I understand why facebook is free, and things like this, help keep it free, but when you start fooling around with people's privacy to generate money to keep it free, that's overstepping the boundaries in my opinion. Same thing Instagram tried to do. And how much goes on in the background that people do not know about? They aren't going to publicize all of the stuff that they don't want you to know.

This is my opinion though.

For some, a facebook profile is like an online home. All their pictures and information are on their profile. Would you want someone being able to buy access to step in the front door to your home just to tell you something? A little extreme for the comparison, but that's almost what it would be like. Some people don't want a million messages from any unknown user.

Why, would they not be able to ask for a friend request first? And then if accepted PM the user instead of bypassing those now (somewhat) irrelevant privacy settings from your user account for who can contact you? If they don't add you as a friend, chances are they do not want to talk to you. Simple :thumbsup2:

 

[Corrine]

Its just like on a forum -- anyone who is a member of the same forum can send a PM to another member. They don't need to be friends. Just like forum PMs, objectionable Facebook messages can also be reported. Since I only share with friends, paying a $1 to end me a message would not give them access to any pictures or other information I've shared on FB.

For a messaging advertising campaign to be effective, the company would need to spend a lot of $1's. They would then need to select their audience. Where would they get the list of member names to send the messages to? Use random names? What kind of target audience will they get? Sounds like a complete waste of money to me.

Would you want someone being able to buy access to step in the front door to your home just to tell you something?

They'd have to get past our dogs first. :lol:

Seriously, I know what you mean but, although I may be completely wrong, it really sounds like a failure to me.

 

[AceInfinity]

Its just like on a forum -- anyone who is a member of the same forum can send a PM to another member. They don't need to be friends.

I've ran many different forum software's though, and that is optional. It doesn't have to be set to where everybody can PM you. And where that feature is available, it's there for a reason the way I see it, not for some other method to bypass that and go against the other user's settings.

Since I only share with friends, paying a $1 to end me a message would not give them access to any pictures or other information I've shared on FB.

I get that, the other settings stay all the same, but it's not quite with my reasoning... I'm not a facebook user though so I guess it shouldn't concern me, but I still don't see why someone should be allowed to do that.

They'd have to get past our dogs first.

:lol: Okay, that's funny. I guess it goes to show that if you don't want it happening to you though, get a dog haha.

Seriously, I know what you mean but, although I may be completely wrong, it really sounds like a failure to me.

Well, seeing as how you use facebook, whenever this feature comes into play, perhaps you'll notice a lot of what's going on when the users become more aware about it. :) I just don't use facebook really period. I'd prefer to make sure that my information stays private, and doesn't get into the wrong hands online where it could prove to be dangerous.

I would use FB for business ventures, but past that, nothing personal for me.

Thanks!
Ace

 

[A Guy]

Corrine, I mean messages in my account. I used it for a Paragon giveaway, and a Major Geeks one. Both post all kinds of stuff. I don't bother to find settings as I have no plan to use the account. they can have at it, lol. A Guy

 

[jcgriff2]

They'd have to get past our dogs first. :lol:

First or second behind the homeowner..? :hysterical: