Thursday, September 23, 2010

“Not Now” Feature In Facebook Brings More Privacy Issues

New feature from Facebook is available now. The functionality of it is a mystery to me and I’ll explain why. From now one you have the possibility, if somebody wants to connect with you to delay him by pressing the “Not Now” button. What this button will do in fact is that it will delay the answer.
But what if you don’t press any button? I think is the same solution, only transformed into a pressing matter. What this new feature brings is the fact that when you press Not Now, that person can see the info you post on your wall that is set as available to everyone in your privacy settings. And another question rises: if you won’t somebody to see you posts why just don’t accept him. If you want to permanently block the person after pressing Not Now you will have to head to the Request page.
Hopping that your privacy settings won’t create any problems, could this button be in fact a target for people who were lazy and didn’t make their accounts secure.
I for once don’t feel very happy about this and hope that future similar sites like Diaspora will give more secure possibilities .

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