I don't like the long preamble trying to justify themselves, but now that I can turn off Facebook Platform entirely, it's a small price to pay.
give people a compelling reason to use a product (in this case to turn it on), or you have no product--period.
You might disagree with the defaults they've chosen, but having everything "off" by default isn't a great world.
It's really scammy. Once it pops up, you're trapped. Click on the facebook logo, and it doesn't take you home. There is no way out unless you either agree, or manually go back to facebook.com yourself.
What are they thinking doing crap like that...
Totally obnoxious.
Secondly, I just went and checked out the instant personalization feature, which I explicitly opted-out of when it launched, only to find the feature re-enabled.
Things have changed, but nothing changed at all.
"If you simply want to turn on instant personalization, we've also made that easier."
If "personalization" is such a great feature, people will turn it on. "opt in" by default, please!
I see absolutely no changes here, except that privacy settings are now tabbed, and that instead of a dropdown, you now have radio buttons. Wow, now this is simpler! /sarcasm
BTW, are you a facebook employee? I went through your comments and a good 90% (no hyperbole this time) are comments related to Facebook posts, and some looked pro-facebook. Nothing wrong, of course, just curious.
It makes me wonder if Facebook had a bad couple of days of people deleting their accounts and Mark Zuckerberg thought "Right, we've got 7 days to fix this and get them logging in again, let's get to it!"
* I could have the precise timeframe wrong
Marks says at http://www.businessinsider.com/live-facebook-rolls-out-new-p... :
On quitting the site: "We've seen no meaningful change on the stats on any of that stuff."
Some people are totally comfortable with the risk, but frankly I think it would be good for everybody that the "social networking infrastructure" is not owned by one company. Then... like email, ISPs, IM, mobile phone providers... everyone would have a choice and companies could compete for their customers.
Now, I can see ISPs setting up social network nodes for their users, I just wonder if there won't be some similar pain if/when one changes provider.
The same thing goes for Diaspora. It's going to take a miracle to make the majority of Facebook users jump over to a social network that cannot be used for free.
