Q 103 - Albany's #1 Rock Station » faebook http://q103albany.com Albany's #1 Rock Station Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:30:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 10 Things We Wish We Could Opt Out of on Facebook http://q103albany.com/10-things-we-wish-we-could-opt-out-of-on-facebook/ http://q103albany.com/10-things-we-wish-we-could-opt-out-of-on-facebook/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:29:17 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://thefw.com/?p=55396 “opt out” of certain settings and features that might expose some of their personal information to the entire world.

We applaud these efforts to ensure our privacy, and we think it should be taken even further. Facebook should not only make sure that our most sensitive information isn't exposed to the general public, but they should also ask us if we want to “opt out” of the most annoying causes of social networking headaches that have spread like some virtual flesh eating bacteria that cannot be stopped.

]]> Facebook may have changed the way we communicate, keep up with long lost friends and pretend that we're doing actual work in the office, but it has come at a great cost to privacy. Now the federal government is forcing the social networking giant to ask all 800 million of their users if they wish to “opt out” of certain settings and features that might expose some of their personal information to the entire world.

We applaud these efforts to ensure our privacy, and we think it should be taken even further. Facebook should not only make sure that our most sensitive information isn't exposed to the general public, but they should also ask us if we want to “opt out” of the most annoying causes of social networking headaches that have spread like some virtual flesh eating bacteria that cannot be stopped.

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