Friends In The Half Life

Those readers who take a dim view of Facebook's curious privacy policy, now have another reason to take an even dimmer view.

It appears that Facebook has changed its "Friends" policy.  Previously when someone applied to become a Friend,  a person had the right to either accept them or ignore them.  If they were ignored, one assumed that was the end of them.

Not any more.

Now when someone applies to become a Friend, a person can either accept them or use a new button called "Not Now".  If the "Not Now" option is chosen, the Friend is sent to a kind of half-life.  They're not your Friend but.....UNLESS YOU'VE TAKEN THE ADDITIONAL STEP OF BLOCKING THEM.......THEY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SUBSCRIBED TO ALL YOUR PUBLIC FEEDS, POSTS, PICTURES AND INFORMATION............

Unless the privacy options are set to "Friends Only" or higher, this person or people in the Half Life become ghosts who follow you around leaching considerable amounts of your personal information.

In other words, what Facebook has done is to morph someone you don't want as a "Friend" into a "Follower".

Creepy and unethical.

Read more on GroovyPost dated 24 September 2010 entitled, Facebook's New "Not Now" Friend Feature.

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