Facebook Sent Users' PRIVATE (and Sexy) messages to Random People
Friday, February 26, 2010
, Posted by JD at 11:46 PM
My relationship with Facebook is sort of like my relationship with cable. I don't want it, don't use it all that often, but I have it because, well, everyone else does. I don't have many good things to say about facebook at this point--funny because 2 years ago I loved it. But now, I don't know how to use a lot of features (I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to see ALL the updates from people I'm friends with), and I live in fear that Facebook will make yet another huge privacy change or update while I'm not paying attention.
One of my goals this week is to scrub my account of all pictures and status updates before making a final decision about whether or not to delete it. It was really at the prodding of others that I signed my blog up for a 'fan' page...which I actually do see as useful, except for I hate the word 'fan' and the lack of control I have over certain page components.
FB has made a number of missteps over the past year, in particular with regard to user privacy. While perusing these here innanets, I ran across yet another Facebook privacy fail. For a few hours on one night, Facebook sent the private messages of some of its users to unintended recipients. Can you imagine? We all know the "interesting" conversations that take place behind the scenes in social media inboxes from twitter direct messages to Myspace mail, we've all sent things we'd rather not have anyone else see outside of the intended target.
In this case, one of the receivers of 128 private messages not meant for his eyes, happened to work for the Wall Street Journal. I have a feeling if not for these messages going to a reporter, we would have never known about this glitch--a glitch that FB has yet to explain.
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