Addendum

I told Alex I'd post this:

Joe Wojciechowski: dude
Joe Wojciechowski: have you seen facebook
Alex Van Valkenburgh: NSA got to it
Joe Wojciechowski: oya
Joe Wojciechowski: i must be the only person who likes the new homepage
Alex Van Valkenburgh: i don't really care one way or another about how it changed
Alex Van Valkenburgh: you can kill every one of the things it says you did, anyway
Joe Wojciechowski: yeah
Joe Wojciechowski: it's really dumb
Joe Wojciechowski: this is true 1984
Alex Van Valkenburgh: NSA?
Joe Wojciechowski: facebook introduces a feature that, essentially, shows in gory detail exactly what you're putting out there on the internet
Joe Wojciechowski: and people want to revert it back to when they thought they had some semblance of privacy
Joe Wojciechowski: even though all of the privacy settings are 100% the same
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: "oh noes suddenly people can see all the public stuff i'm doing on the internet"
Alex Van Valkenburgh: yeah, it doesn't show you anything you couldn't find out before
Alex Van Valkenburgh: not like "sent a private message to ___"
Joe Wojciechowski: the main complaint is that now it's "too easy" to find stuff out
Joe Wojciechowski: huh?
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: so why sign up
Alex Van Valkenburgh: it should be like "this dude viewed pictures of this chick for an inordinately long period of time, leading to only one conclusion"
Joe Wojciechowski: what's the point if you're going to make changes for your friends to find out, but want to make them dig for it
Joe Wojciechowski: why not just say "you did X"
Joe Wojciechowski: because you did
Joe Wojciechowski: you fucker
Joe Wojciechowski: you fucking idiot
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: god
Joe Wojciechowski: just pisses me off how hypocritical people are
Joe Wojciechowski: and such a large portion of the userbase, too
Joe Wojciechowski: they're perfectly fine using a social website just as long as nothing they do socially is posted
Joe Wojciechowski: ok
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D

That basically says it.

Democracy In Action: Facebook and Privacy

I suppose that a false sense of privacy is better than none at all: Facebook has altered its privacy settings to allow people to put whatever in and take whatever out of their newsfeeds they want. I for one won't be altering mine, and it's kind of unfortunate that people will be forcing other people to dig through their profiles again to see what's going on. Once again, the privacy settings Facebook has implemented add no privacy, it simply rearranges your stuff back to when it was hard to find (when you had the illusion of privacy). If that's your bag, congratulations, you do not understand the point of a social networking website.

Hopefully most people will just turn off the timestamps and be done with it.

It's Really, Really Big

Hot damn, do I want one.

Another one, that is.

In other news, classes are boring and I have homework I'm avoiding.

In more other news, lots of idiots are up in arms over the recent Facebook changes since their perceived privacy has been blown away like the thin veil it was. More on that later.