>> if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.
There are two separate issues here: 1) should Facebook have done this, and 2) should the user have stopped it sooner.
You say the answer to #2 is "yes." Ok, fine.
But the answer to #1 is definitely "No." I don't care if they've been doing it since the day they launched. They're spamming the user's friends, without the user's explicit action, in a way that makes it appear that the user did it personally.
How can they possibly call that a "feature"? Imagine having Skype auto-dial your contacts, impersonate your voice, and pitch them on products.
>> if you are still using Facebook but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.
There are two separate issues here: 1) should Facebook have done this, and 2) should the user have stopped it sooner.
You say the answer to #2 is "yes." Ok, fine.
But the answer to #1 is definitely "No." I don't care if they've been doing it since the day they launched. They're spamming the user's friends, without the user's explicit action, in a way that makes it appear that the user did it personally.
How can they possibly call that a "feature"? Imagine having Skype auto-dial your contacts, impersonate your voice, and pitch them on products.
>> if you are still using Facebook but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.
There, I fixed that for you.