uh oh
This ought to be ‘interesting’... hehe
1. Use different email accounts.
2. Opt out of the sharing ability.
3. Don’t “like” everything.
It isn’t a really big deal.
Misleading title: you elect what to want to share.
You have to “opt in”.
Netflix is unneccessary, Facebook is dangerous and stupid.
The important part is the 5th and 6th words of the first sentence of the story: be able. Voluntary. If you don’t want to share don’t.
I don’t FB nor tweet.
If I want my friends or family to know what I am doing, I “narrowcast.” In the old days we called that “sending a direct email” or (heavens forbid) “calling them on the phone.”
I just don’t think the fact I just took a dump at a Starbucks restroom on Lankershim is really worth sharing or of any interest.
This is the most self-absorbed generation in the history of people.
Sometimes I think the Internet will kill itself before government gets around to it.
It’s only as intrusive as you want it to be. If you do not want your information shared, then they cannot share it.
The customer still has the power to protect their user history with Netflix.
The article puts the lie to the headline, but since 85% of people only read the headline for their information the majority of people will think that Netflix will be sharing all their information without their knowledge.
Oh, dear. Now my bad habit of watching Abbott and Costello movies will now be revealed...
I'd have to have a Facebook account first.
No harm, no foul.
OooKaaay?
NetFlix does not have my FB email, so they will do this how?
And if they did share ALL this info, why would I care?
If I am watching something I don’t think my kids and grandkids should know about, I have problems way beyond my friends knowing.
Thank goodness Netflix didn’t have a lot of pornography, eh?
Create a bogus secondary FB account.......end of a non-existant problem.........
I could not imagine being on Facebook.
When it first started, I had a page—but got rid of it as soon as I could figure out how to do it.
I have no idea if my Netflix is being shared nor do I care. I feel more sorry for the Facebook (I don’t have a Facebook account so this seems moot) idiots that would WANT to know what I rent.
I’ve never used face book
We have a big family. We share Netflix. I crack up when I get messages from Netflix saying:
We hope you enjoyed watching “Big Bird and Friends” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Care to review them?
Alot of people don’t seem to care much about this...not sure why.
Per the article, the original law stemmed from a leaking of Robert Bork’s rental history. Ten bucks says the leak was meant to embarass him somehow.
And I can see a nexus...you rent too many conservative films...well lets just say you make a list. Remember, according to DHS, conservatives are domestic terrorists. Remember the DOJ just arrested a guy for making the ‘wrong’ movie.
I don’t like it at all.
Just last week a map of registered gun owners showed up in the paper. How about a list of all the people who rented ‘Obama’s America’...put up on some website, for SEIU thugs to utilize in fulfillment of their monthly tire slashing quota. (as a side note, a co-worker’s son crossed the picket line at Goodyear once...and they apparently followed him home, and slashed his tires in the middle of the night...so its not hyperbole, the thugs really do this).
I think its a terrible idea. And, I don’t think it matters if you have a facebook account or not. Facebook probably has a ‘shadow account’ running on most of us, data mining for information to sell to ad companies. Their reach is amazing, really. I have an account set up purely to watch my kids’ activity (they know I’m watching and they have to let me be a ‘friend’ as a condition of use). I get ‘you might know this person’ notices about people I barely know. It may be a person I e-mailed ONCE, from my work account. It may be a person I have only communicated with via TELEPHONE. It may be a person I never communicated with, but we were both included in the ‘to’ line of a blast e-mail. Facebook uses alot of computing power to find any string of continuity or overlap. And you can bet that, even if you don’t have a facebook account, if you rent a movie about cowboys, the ads on the sidebar of soem web-sites will start to show you cowboy hats...somewhere in the background Facebook has got your number.
Now conservatives can be outed by the documentaries they watch, and anyone’s porn viewing is public information.
I cannot remember the short story, but it was one in which wanting privacy - and faking one’s public postings to maintain privacy - was considered a form of mental illness.