Comments on: Safe Facebooking

By: Gabriel Smith

Gabriel Smith — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:10:31 +0000

Only a moron would use Facebook in the first place.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:03:48 +0000

You are not paranoid! By not relinquishing the right to control over your own information, you are being responsible and active and you should assert yourself as such! We must show the lazy, complacent, “facebook-is-a-well-intentioned-service” people that awareness and activism is the way to go, not something done only by luddites.

I know you call yourself paranoid as a joke, but if we are to take back our social media we must enlist the help of others, and many of them will be more than happy to call you a crazy bat and to ignore your message, esp if we as media activists are happy to call ourselves paranoid!

Thank you for your article!

By: Thomas Arbs

Thomas Arbs — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:27:14 +0000

Shouldn’t a Firefox private mode session, or the addon “CookiePie” address the issue? And, if you stick to rule 3, shouldn’t that make rule 4 redundant?

Otherwise, some scary insights into a subject I thought I at least mostly had a grasp of.

By: Robert BIgelow

Robert BIgelow — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:23:02 +0000

Hi Sarah. This particular blog entry is very informative and – I believe – very important. I’m working on a project to develop a knowledge-base for survivors of domestic violence. I’d going to send this link to the director of the women’s center at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She’s a friend and feminist associate. Thanks for this blog. You have probably done more good by doing so that you may realize. Robert Bigelow, feminist-advocate.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:06:23 +0000

Nice article. I have been working with Facebook application for a while and it may seem as you say here but instead it looks like that you cannot get email address from Facebook API unless you authorize the website to do that. Plus you can usually choose if you want to give just a proxy email that should die when you uninstall the app.
Also, Unless you “connect to facebook” the website should not be able even to find you user ID.
Please let me know your thoughts.

By: Joe Harris

Joe Harris — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:59:00 +0000

Great post, and very timely given the whole Facebook info on BitTorrent debacle.

There’s a simple way to keep Facebook separate without having to copy and paste links into a different browser: Mozilla Prism (http://prism.mozillalabs.com/). It’s basically just site specific browser (like Fluid or Chrome “application shortcuts”) however the real bonus with Prism is that it maintains separate cookies and history. It also opens all outgoing links in your default browser. I love it!

Joe

By: dietcoupon

dietcoupon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:25:56 +0000

Very intriguing, and worth thinking about, but the first step is to keep the sensitive content off of Facebook, no? Mine doesn’t have any noteworthy information about me – not even my primary e-mail address.

My other issue is that I don’t like Facebook and I don’t like using it, but your points about maintaining contact are valid and ultimately why I keep my account. Still, to quarantine it to another browser reinforces the “need” to use Facebook by making it a more complicated process. Do you find that this process emphasizes or de-emphasizes the compulsive Facbook-check?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:02:19 +0000

I’ve been having some thoughts along the same lines. At the moment I use Facebook only via the dedicated Facebook app on my iPod touch.

There is a way to use Firefox both with Facebook and with other websites: you can create different Firefox profiles. You can run several different Firefox profiles at the same time using the -no-remote flag. The MozillaZine Knowledge Base has some information about this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile