i dont wanna tell you my full birthday

[passionpop]

well looks like i wont get a facebook, it wants my whole date of birth and I dont wanna give my whole date of birth to someone I trust as much as facebook

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[firvulag.livejournal.com]

so do what many others do and give it an obviously fake one. like a day that's makes you 100 or something silly like that.

Not sure on your trust issues with them though, they had an issue early on from memory, but nothing since. My main issue is with their photo stuff where supposedly if you put photos on their site, they can use them as their own or something stupid like that. I don't have many photos on there for that reason

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

yeha they had some issues a bit over a year ago more with add-ons and stuff from memory.

but who owns facebook and you tell me why i should truct them...

[ducts.livejournal.com]

"Trust" in them (or lj) is seriously misplaced. It's inexcusable when they have a serious breach, but they have and they will; we just have to hope the benefits outweigh that. Assume it's public, though you can retain the right to be outraged when it actually happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Controversies
Beacon was one, putting your friends' face on an ad for you, tracking activities by you with webbugs even if you logged off Facebook.

Sure, you can tweak a few privacy knobs, but you are by definition handing over a big bunch of unencrypted information and detailed session tracking to an amorphous cloud of Internet servers, which it will dole out to a bunch of apps and accounts that might represent your friends; and their computers are no more secure than yours.

A useful step I think they might consider is to have a way to make popular stable apps "official"; where the app is moved to Facebook's servers and no longer interacts directly with the author.

All that; and they still haven't figured out how they're going to make any money.

[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

if it helps, you can put your age in there, but have it set so no-one can see it (ok, no guaruntee it won't make a difference). It's probably better than getting all the retirement villiage adds popping up.

[ducts.livejournal.com]

They leak a whole lot more information than that, once you start using it, or people tag you in photos, etc. (Which you can remove or mistag, but it's already done *shrug*)

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

yeah well done now.

I want to change my settings so that no one can find me.

[binkypengi.livejournal.com]

a) fake birthday, raven's was apparently "yesterday"

2) the privacy settings are set as rather open by default but you can lock them down as little or as much as you want.

3) as far as add ons, etc, easy way to avoid is to ignore the application requests etc people send. what the big issue used to be was that to use certain fun gadgets etc you had to invite x number of people to get your result, etc. now a lot more of them have a skip button than there used to be. it's like anything, it's how you use it and what you make of it really.

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

I just put my birthday as jan 1 1900 and it said, and I quote "Please enter your real birthday"