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Facebook promises privacy settings to suit 'everyone'

Anonymous Coward

Wheres the ...bitch 

Paris Hilton

I thought ...bitch was obligatory for all facebook related reg articles.

Apparently I was wrong ...bitch

Anonymous Coward

I for one 

Welcome

I for one welcome our privacy snatching corporate overlords and as a result, I will be allowing everyone to view my details.

</sarcasm>

Mike007

what is a title? 

facebook privacy, they have a word for that - oxymoron (or perhaps the moron part refers to the users?)

OkKTY8KK5U

Will these settings work? 

Paris Hilton

I have some personal dignity, so I've never been tempted to sign up for Facebook, but from what I've read elsewhere, part of the problem with the "privacy" settings is that from a purely technical standpoint, they're easy to get around even if correctly configured, and therefore little more than security theatre.

Paris, to comply with obligatory "...bitch" requirement, as noted by first AC.

Anonymous Coward

New privacy setting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Grenade

<tiny text>all previous privacy settings you carefully set up are erased, sorry</tiny text>

Throatwobbler Mangrove

you have to remember... 

FAIL

...teh Internet is a public space...bitch!

davenewman

Politicians will worry 

as Facebook rewrites the map by removing regions. It will no longer be possible to set up a group restricted only to people from Northern Ireland.

Glen 9

@Politicians will worry 

Big Brother

@Politicians will worry

Agreed.

Death to UK and Ireland.

Northern Irelanders (?) are the new overloards and deserve their own recognition.

Yes I do have have a facebook page and from Northern Ireland... <bitch_requirement> bitch </bitch_requirement>.

@I for one

Google already knows everything about your life so I don't see how signing up 2 facebook could hurt. At least ypu only put what you want on facebook. Google knows your secrets... it knows what you did last summer... (Cue music)

Anonymous Coward

It will be a waste of time 

If Facebook does not block Phorm, your privacy is doomed from the start!