Really: Facebook Testing 'Follow This User' Feature

I am insecure. I must, at all times, be informed about what every person on earth is doing. Heaven forbid I miss a person's status change!!!

The South Park Facebook episode is looking more real every day.

Wow, that is a really creepy thing to add to facebook. Didn't Zuckerberg go through all that hell about privacy? LOL, congratulations on a complete failure to notice the obvious. And in the wise words of Zuckerberg himself, what a bunch of "dumb f**ks".

Facebook is getting insecure day by day. I am thinking of deleting my account....

You seem to be confused. This feature isn't giving you any more access to a user's information. It only prioritizes theirs above others.

I think it's a great feature. It'll let a user keep track of close friends easily without being forced to remove not-so-close friends to do so. It's really just the facebook-equivalent of gmail's recent email prioritization scheme.

Why in hell do I want to be notified when everybody I know goes to work, comes home or is sitting down watching some TV?

If prioritizing people is all that important, use the hide feature. This seems to be a product of the facebook department of redundancy department.

So Facebook is Twitter, pretty much.

But Facebook implementation fails at it.

I think you mean "disabling." Deletion is asking for a bit much.

I think -you- mean "Deactivating" it.

Not if you use this link: https://ssl.facebook.com/help/conta [...] te_account

Yes, that is the official "kill your profile" link. I've been tempted to use it a number of times myself.

Maybe I do. I wouldn't touch facebook with a 10-foot pole so my terminology is probably a bit off.




How do you know that deletes your profile?

SUPERSTALKER

This isn't at all surprising. The Facebook feed is often quite random in how it sifts through information poured into it. Oft times I can refresh the page and have random stuff emerge on the feed that isn't new time-wise but never showed up before.

Not a needed feature for me, but not surprising either. I'm not so much worried about stalkers using it as Facebook Moms. *sigh*

Priority inbox -> priority friends

Nice ideal but why not call it best friends. Facebook needs additional customizing features. The amount of information is overwhelming once you get more than 50 friends.

It doesn't. It puts it in some secret 'recycle bin'. You need to email at least 40 times before they 'delete' it. But you'll never know for sure. It's better just to assume that any time something gets uploaded to the net (including this sentence), it's there for all eternity.

I'll probably stop using Facebook because it's blocking me from adding people I don't know.

Lol... people like you are the reason they are going to be able to get away with this...

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In fact, someone just hacked into mine a few days ago. Closed.

...and I'm sure this new 'e-stalking feature' has got the paedophiles foaming at the mouth.

This isn't so bad. I'm still stuck on the auto-geotagging bricka brack from last week

You're all a bunch of bungling buffoons. This doesn't change your privacy on facebook.

It's not going to allow strangers to subscribe to you. This feature is for friends.

Read this part, since I'm sure most of you just read the headline and the first few lines of the article:

"It could be useful for people with a lot of Facebook friends as it would allow them to keep up with their close friends and family without feeling like they have to go through their entire news feed "


So really, this feature will just be a great way to sift out all the annoying people who post dumb crap on facebook, and only see what your close friends and family are saying. The people you know are going to be posting things of substance.


Again, not going to be a tool for stalkers. They will not be able to subscribe and follow people unless they're friends, just like how it is right now. If you have your profile set to "only friends", only friends are going to see your crap.



Chill out people.

Using that logic, I should have gmail send all email from any address other than friends & family directly to the trash bin. Not a very good way to go about doing things.

On facebook, I have friends I talk to all the time and hang out with every week. If they post something it's very likely that I'll want to read it. On the other hand, I have other friends who I don't talk to every other day, but still enjoy talking to. Occasionally, they'll post something I want to read. If I hid them, I'd never see any of that - I wouldn't care enough to check their profiles manually. So now I have a way of keeping up with everyone without running the risk of missing one of the important messages from a friend.



Get away with WHAT? You don't get to see any additional information by clicking on the button. If someone's seriously stalking you, they'd be checking your profile page out in its entirety all the time anyway. The subscribe button doesn't allow you to see anything you wouldn't be able to normally. I don't know how clearer this could possibly be.

fine by me, as long as I have the authority to approve or block a subscription or block subs altogether

this is a horrible idea. here come the stalkers

Facebook is assuming the role of myspace and rotting.

people, seriously? can you read?

If they are NOT on your friends list, they CAN'T subscribe to you.

HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND? READ THE ARTICLE.

IT'S FOR FRIENDS OF FRIENDS.

PEDOPHILES/STALKERS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUBSCRIBE TO SOMEONE UNLESS THEY ARE FRIENDS WITH THEM FIRST.

READ.THE.WORDS.TRY.WITH.ALL.YOUR.BRAIN.POWER.TO.UNDER.STAND.THIS

What is on the internet, stays on the internet. You data has been copied several times by now.

now i need a feature that tells me who is stalking me big time!

A form of this feature has been available for some time. You can get FB to txt you everytime certain people post. I know, my wife gets a txt message everytime I post!
I know of other people who sort of stalk people using this feature.

I guess i am the only one who doesn't use crap called Facebook