Comments on: Facebook privacy settings http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings/ random words.. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Risto H. Kurppa http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-1182 Risto H. Kurppa Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:18:06 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=2375#comment-1182 You're right, opt-in has benefits. Nice if I've been able to write something useful :) You’re right, opt-in has benefits.

Nice if I’ve been able to write something useful :)

]]> By: Craig http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-1181 Craig Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:10:15 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=2375#comment-1181 (btw... thanks for the guide... very informative :-) ) (btw… thanks for the guide… very informative :-) )

]]> By: Craig http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Craig Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:08:47 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=2375#comment-1180 The benefit of opt-in (the close friend list has more access) is if you forget to add them to the group... well they have limited access until you give them more (which might not make you popular, but it's more secure). With Opt-out, it's easier to forget to add people to exclude. (but if excluding is the rarity, then it's less work) I guess it's just which-ever you consider the exception... of course you could just avoid putting anything up that, while you'd prefer not to be seen by everyone, wouldn't be the end of the world if they did see it... :-) The benefit of opt-in (the close friend list has more access) is if you forget to add them to the group… well they have limited access until you give them more (which might not make you popular, but it’s more secure). With Opt-out, it’s easier to forget to add people to exclude. (but if excluding is the rarity, then it’s less work)

I guess it’s just which-ever you consider the exception…

of course you could just avoid putting anything up that, while you’d prefer not to be seen by everyone, wouldn’t be the end of the world if they did see it… :-)

]]> By: Risto H. Kurppa http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Risto H. Kurppa Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:48:35 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=2375#comment-1171 Hi Craig, thanks for your comments! That's true, creating a close friends to give access to might be a good concept too, didn't think about it. To me the opt-out -approach for some reason appeared first, I think Facebook supports it better but not sure. And yes I also agree that friends of friends.. it's just too many people.. If I have 300 friends, they each have 200 people that don't overlap with others, that's already 60000 people.. Huge number already, and for sure includes people you don't want to allow access to your data.. Hi Craig, thanks for your comments! That’s true, creating a close friends to give access to might be a good concept too, didn’t think about it. To me the opt-out -approach for some reason appeared first, I think Facebook supports it better but not sure.

And yes I also agree that friends of friends.. it’s just too many people..
If I have 300 friends, they each have 200 people that don’t overlap with others, that’s already 60000 people.. Huge number already, and for sure includes people you don’t want to allow access to your data..

]]> By: Craig http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Craig Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:26:58 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=2375#comment-1170 Some people might find it more valuable to approach security as Opt-in rather than Opt-out. So rather than creating a group that has limited access to your profile, set your profile security up as limited access by default, then create a group called "close friends" (or whatever) and give that group access the broader access (of seeing your wall, photo's, etc) I think the riskiest security option is "friends of friends"... it's a pretty broad net and not very selective at that... Some people might find it more valuable to approach security as Opt-in rather than Opt-out. So rather than creating a group that has limited access to your profile, set your profile security up as limited access by default, then create a group called “close friends” (or whatever) and give that group access the broader access (of seeing your wall, photo’s, etc)

I think the riskiest security option is “friends of friends”… it’s a pretty broad net and not very selective at that…

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