Chuck's Blog

Thanks for this wonderful marketing information Facebook. I’ll be sure to let the corner stores know to put 3OH!3 albums nearby Skittles.

On a side note: Page data is easily viewable by just about anyone on Facebook. See what can be determined with it? Correlation != Causation, but most people who like 3OH!3 honestly do like Skittles.

Honestly..

pyrohawk.com is the domain serving this page up, so if you’re annoyed with this too I’d go grab some info by running a whois query. Domain privacy was not used.

I’m not the only one reporting on this. Hopefully Facebook does sort this out soon, because it has become quite the eyesore. Maybe a “See more” button would be suited for longer “liked” pages?

Alright, I’ll confess. I do have a Facebook account, even though I am a bit of a privacy nut. However, unlike most users I have employed the privacy settings to protect me from the average data mining theif.

Although it looks like it’s about to get a bit harder for these folks to get the data they want easily. Facebook just popped up a wizard today for me as I logged in, one that allowed me to change my privacy settings. Naturally I really didn’t change anything, because I already had my settings perfected, but this looks like it will help with eliminating most users privacy issues. Sure, the more hidden options like preventing your account from being indexed by search engines isn’t there, but maybe this wizard will help people realize it does exist.

Props to Facebook for making an effort, even if it is very small.