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Porn sites targeting your Facebook timeline
FACEBOOK has come under fire after it was revealed adult sites could show up in people's Facebook account timelines.
Technology blog Techwag has warned Facebook users to prepare for embarrassing connections to porn sites to start appearing in their timelines once the new feature goes live in coming weeks.
The timeline feature means you will now have an ongoing and persistent record of your activities when on Facebook and so will others who can view your page.
What this means is that if a porn site uses passive sharing options on Facebook, has “like” buttons on its page or allows people to sign into their site using your Facebook details then all of that will now be recorded on your timeline.
However this will only occur if you choose to interact with porn sites.
Techwag blogger Rmorrill explains how it’s already happening: "Imagine my surprise to see a couple of porn sites this morning using Facebook Connect, and yes, they knew who I was.
“Embarrassed possibly, more humoured because this really is how the adult industry is going to get into social media and it will be done because users rarely log out of Facebook (even that might not help) and Facebook connect is everywhere.”
According to Mashable.com letting apps place a huge amount of information into your timeline at the click of a button and granting that App access to your feed and to share your activity presents serious privacy concerns.
"What activity, you ask? It could be the news articles you read online, the videos you watch, the photos you view, the music you listen to, or any other action within the site or App. Facebook calls this auto-sharing 'Gestures', " wrote Pete Cashmore on Mashable.com
Read more: Watch out: Porn sites targeting your Facebook timeline | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au
The Black Beauty
then its better to use firefox , as it got the feature of Private Browsing .so your browser and computer dont keep a log of websites you log on.
what sort of person goes on those horrible sites anyway???
not me,
i stay right away from facebook, twitter etc
glad I got rid of Facebook hehehe
sheppa8
I think Ill run the risk of being embarrassed. Porn FTW
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Your mum's new boyfriend
This isn't really new news, It's been happening for ages. Well, not the actual viewing feature of people's timelines on Facebook, but Facebook and Google+ have been watching what we view for a while now. Notice nearly every site has a little [+1] button, or a "Like" button showing a number of the amount of people who have liked the page as well? It only comes up if you are logged into Facebook or Google+. you may not be on the site, but the cookies are still there, and technically you're still logged on, so unless you log off and clear your cache before doing anything else, The Eye of Sauramon is watching.
Showing what people are going on is just completely retarded, I don't care what my friends are looking at, hell, I don't even care what they are saying on Facebook but it shows us that already. Facebook are also under fire as they have been using Cookies to track what websites we have been going on, and have been getting access to whatever information you input into these sites, whether it's passwords, credit card details, everything. Facebook denies using the data for sale purposes (Selling to spam sites etc) & they say it's just to make the ads on your page more appealing to you, but people aren't convinced.
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Sexy Man
Some Doc on telly this morning said that our brains are being adversley affected by using social media so much. Childrens minds need to be stimulated by play and interaction otherwise when they are our age they will either be sociopaths or psycopaths. So porn or not get the hell outside and tinker with your car/bike/girlfriend.
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Torana Addict
I got in trouble last time I tinkered with my girlfriend outside...
Facebook is the biggest waste of time in my opinion, so who cares. I've been on facebook and never saw what the hype was all about, glad I'm no longer on it.
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I would hate to see my timeline on one of my days off.
12pm wake up, 1pm porn, 2pm porn, 3pm porn, 4pm porn, 5pm porn, 6pm ate dinner..........while watching porn, etc.
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Hand over the dog bikkies
As long as my midgets gone wild site don't come up this doesn't effect me.
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Your mum's new boyfriend
It depends on what you use it for, I guess. For me it's great since I moved to Qld half way through year 11 so I use FB to keep in touch with my mates down there, & also my whole family apart from mum, dad, bro, and one aunty, one uncle & one cousin live on the other side of the world, so it's the cheapest way to talk to them too.Originally Posted by JMP
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I used to play a game on facebook, have never posted any personal details. Part of playing the game is needing neighbours.. so my friends list is miles long with people I dont know.
Even with the old facebook.. this happened a year ago..
One of my 'neighbours' whom I dont know but just happens to live 20km from me has her name, d.o.b, area etc in her profile.
As her posts show up in my feed, I have seen her post her full address on her wall for everyone to see, as part of a conversation with someone.
I have seen her phone numbers, both mobile and landline.
I know what she looks like, and all of her extended family, as she posts about 50 photos a day. Even does it from her phone at cafes, taking photos of her breakfast.
I know that she is a Kiwi. I know she bought a brand new 55" Plasma TV and she is worried about security because the landlord wont fix the back door. I know the exact dates and flight times of a trip to NZ that she took, and that no-one was available to babysit the house.
Me and every one of the other 490 odd random friends she has. She only seems to have maybe 50 real friends going by the conversations I see, the others are randoms to play games with.
Social media networking is bloody dangerous, especially if you arent very bright.
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