About Facebook Protest

On June 6th we are asking those who disagree with the changes Facebook has made to it’s “privacy” policies to commit to not logging in or interacting with Facebook in any way. Be sure to log out of Facebook in all of your browsers no later than the evening of June 5th. On the 6th, be sure to not use Facebook connect or click any “Like” buttons: basically refrain from ALL Facebook related activity.

Facebook’s real customer is the advertisers that they work with: NOT YOU.

Mark Zuckerberg has stated he “doesn’t believe in privacy“. In a letter to Zuckerberg dated April 27, Senators Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken objected to changes that made a user’s current city, hometown, likes, interests and friends publicly available, where they were previously only seen by friends. [source] Recent changes at Facebook “violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations,” said Marc Rotenberg, who runs the Electronic Privacy Information Center, one of 15 groups that complained about Facebook in a filing with the Federal Trade Commission. [source]

You can help by committing to join us in protest against Facebook this June 6th, chosen for being D-Day. D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. Clever, eh?

The best way to be counted is to follow us on Twitter!

I have committed to using only grass roots methods to spread the word about this protest. It will be through the authentically viral spread of awareness initiated by those who want to be involved that will make this a success. I want the numbers of followers of both the Twitter account and the Facebook group to accurately reflect the number of people who have committed to taking part in this protest.

The best way to help spread the word to your friends on Facebook would be to join our group and invite all of your friends to follow suit, and invite their friends, and so on. You can also use the social bookmarking tool above to help generate exposure to the site by sharing it with your other networks and helping it to be seen.

This Video is included in the Edutational Video Section. It is very important ALL FB users see it. IT shows the clandestine relationship between fb and powerful govt organizations.

Infographic of the Day: Privacy on Facebook Is Vanishing

BY Cliff KuangMon May 10, 2010

Facebook privacy settings are eroding. But the scope and speed of that transformation has happened fairly quietly–maybe because we’ve never before had an infographic that lays all the changes out.

The chart was a personal project created by Matt McKeon, who by day is a researcher at IBM’s Visual Communication Lab (where Fernanda Viegas used to work).

It’s concentric rings show the groups who can see a given slice of information, if you leave the default settings in place. Here’s the service in 2005:

In 2009:

And now:

Of course, these are obviously all default settings, and if you’re concerned, you can readily change access to your profile.

But it does show that Facebook has transformed itself in the last five years from a service were privacy was an opt-out feature, to one where privacy is opt-in. As any behavioral economist will tell you, that single difference can massively affect the choices people make. Facebook might easily claim, “Hey! You can change things as you wish!” But in fact, they’ve created a massive shift in the privacy settings of Facebook as a whole.

Why would they make those changes? The less privacy there is in general, the more irresistible Facebook becomes, because you can snoop on other people far more. And figure out exactly what to sell them.