A few years ago , Facebook quietly changed their champion rejection procedure . Instead of opting to Ignore , you may now only table the put - down by click Not Now . But those purgatoried peoplecan still readall your public info and updates .
As TechCrunchobserves , when someone sends you a Friend request they get immediate access to the info that you ’ve designated as useable to Everyone in your privacy preferences . Once they ’re reject , they ’re blocked for upright . But by create this friendship limbo , Facebook is creating a Twittteresque follow feature .
you’re able to still refuse friend postulation outright ; it just takes an extra tone . Once you ’ve say Not Now to a request , you ’re asked “ Do n’t you know _ _ _ _ _ _ ? , ” and if you say no they ’ll be block off . If you do n’t say no correctly then , you have to head to your Requests page to block them .
With any luck , you ’ve already madeyour privateness settingsstrict enough that this wo n’t be an topic for you . But that ’s not who this insurance change is targeting ; Facebook ’s banking that if you ’re lazy , uninformed , or show-off enough leave your info expose to the macrocosm , you ’ll be evenly so when dispense with friend requests .
https://gizmodo.com/the-devolution-of-facebook-privacy-5537408
Three warm thoughts . One , it seems like a surreptitious , backdoor manner to add a follow procedure that they could have just announced as an opt - in feature . Two , that being order , just redact your privacy preferences already . Three , I ’m guess this would n’t happenon Diaspora . [ Inside FacebookTechCrunch ]
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-student-made-facebook-alternative-diaspora-5639706
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