Facebook Phones Home - Comments Page 1

I won't use it. I don't need something to control my phone.

Even if you do not care about privacy, I am given to understand that it is both a memory and power hog. My concern is that the apps I have on my phone (and tablet) will update to include it and there will be no way to get rid of it.

I deleted my Facebook account about 6 months ago because I did not trust them to handle privacy issues properly... but even if I still had a Facebook account I wouldn't use "Home"... not until they tighten up on security which I don't see happening any time soon!!

I'm only on Facebook to follow my (grown up) kids, so I will definately not be using Facebook phone.

If it smells bad -- it's rotten!

I'll pass and won't lose sleep over it.

Facebook is garbage, the lemming like rush to sign up for a service like this just emphasizes the large number of morons we have in this world..I wouldn't touch this with a bargepole we have more than enough intrusion in our lives.

I am only a casual Facebook user, and to me this definitely sounds like "more annoyance than convenience", so NO....I will not be trying it!

Like one person said I just use it to see what my kids are doing. Frankly I'd be thrilled if Facebook went totally out of business. I sure as hell won't use this app!

Not in this lifetime. Or, for that matter, any other lifetime.

So long as it is an app that one must add for oneself if one wants it, and not something forced on the phone user, the "big brother" comparisons don't really come into play. In folklore, vampires couldn't enter one's home uninvited. The home was a safe refuge unless some idiot had invited vampires in. Facebook, similarly needs to be invited onto your computing device to have any hold on you (or to be of any use to you). So, it's all good so long as that remains the case.

Personally, I don't "do" FB (and I seriously doubt that I ever will) because of its wretched track record of continually rejiggering security settings, dumping everyone into insecure settings, making everything public, by default, no matter how one may have set one's preferences the last time around. Zuckerberg and his merry band clearly want as much of everyone's information to be as completely un-private as possible and they're not above cheating to get it. But so long as I don't give them my data, it's not my problem. Let the goobers who want to broadcast their drunken debaucheries and their vandalism sprees have at it and leave the rest of us who either don't do those things or don't want them widely public alone.

Comments from RocketRide were Gr-r-reat!

I still have FB installed on my phone, but I don't even bother with updates anymore since they stopped installing last October (I think it was).
I don't like ANYthing changing the way things work unless it ASKS me FIRST, something FB does constantly with their settings (as mentioned by RocketRide). Infuriating!

4/9/2013 7:38 pm EDT. No. I don't use Facebook, and don't plan to. The only thing that could force me into it would be a need (a *NEED*) to use social media to publicize one of my books or songs.

The way it sounds, this in-yer-face in-ter-face is as obnoxious as ads that jump in front of your face like tarantula spiders from the sidebar. (Can you imagine what all that visual "startle effect" is doing to your brain and your hard-wired trauma-suppression mechanisms?)

As for privacy, there is already none, and there will be even less. If direct mail marketers can make assumptions about or conduct research into when their mailees are off work and when they get paid, in order to zap them with a hot-button "discount fire sale" sales pitch, you know that "Facebook Home" wants you to invite it into your "home" of privacy and clasp it like an adder to your bosom so that it, too, may feed off of you.

GPS, Likes, and all the rest are the means of establishing your set routines and your tastes, the same way a smart burglar/predator watches the movements and habits of its prey. If you are young enough (or still stupid enough) to ignore your predators and even invite them into your life, you deserve to be snapped up when you bite the bait fashioned from your own publicly-broadcast "favorites."

Sorry to wax verbose on this, but it's a topic that galls me and puts me on high alert.

"Never say 'Never'"

I'll use it... but with extreme caution like I've been trying to do!

Just a couple weeks ago, I think it was Sophos that explained how to find the "Nuclear" Switch - the Big One that disables ALL Apps on facebook:
quote:
- To turn off ALL APPS:
Click on the "Gear" Icon (at top, right) on your 'Timeline' Page,

On the left side, click on "Apps",
If, under "Apps You Use" it says _OFF_ ... you're good;

if not, click on "Edit" to change it.
(end quote)

Of course, there WILL BE all kinds of Opportunities to reverse your settings and, knowing facebook and their Kamikaze programming sessions - they might have all this changed by Monday morning (Noon at the latest).

And, like the previous Poster I offer this apology:
"... Sorry to wax verbose on this, but it's [FACEBOOK] a topic that galls me and puts me on high alert."
It doesn't have to be like this!

Not only "No....but HELL NO!"

Can anybody to give me ONE good, compelling reason I should go for the latest invasive BS? I seriously pity anyone who can't survive without FarceBook.

I'm guessing that all of us that have responded are not teens or twenty-somethings. I can tell you that my 17 year old son would dive on this like a bowl of ice cream if he could get it on his iPhone. Facebook is the first thing he does in the morning, and the last before he goes to bed. His entire world is there, and he would be thrilled to have a live feed on his phone's home page.

I guess we're too old and concerned about silly things like privacy?

Not for love nor money. FB is pure narcissistic BS. Who needs or wants to be that "connected" all the time.

Wrong crowd to ask! Most of us distrust Facebook anyway. I won't even let it on my phone.

Yuck.

Nah, I'd rather not use this app. I'm a casual user and couldn't bother with being connected all the time.