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Has Facebook gone too far with its "frictionless sharing"?

  1. CommDuCoeur
    .@Mollywood seems to think so: http://cnet.co/tQ1RPq RT @RWW: Has Facebook gone too far with its "frictionless sharing"? #RWWBigQuestion
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  4. chuckdefeo
    No, users still have control RT @RWW: Has Facebook gone too far with its "frictionless sharing"? #RWWBigQuestion
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  6. Parthasarathi Varatharajan
    yes as of now but with tighter controls it will be NOT a mess - granular level controls is needed
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  7. Casey Rhodes
    Going too far? With this? As opposed to before? I like your level of tolerance
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  8. Steven Miller
    It sure clutters up my stream with crap I don't want to see. I don't care what others are reading, I want to see only what they recommend and why.
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  9. Julie Stricker
    I agree with Steven. I read a lot of stories, but there aren't a lot that I would recommend to friends. The good stories get lost in the clutter.
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  10. Chris Kostecki
    That's why there is rockmelt...facebook wants to communicate what I do, I dedicate a browser just to facebook, and go in regularly and clear their cookies from other browsers
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  11. Güven Salgun
    As long as the I have control over ALL the options about privacy, and I can set the details about what I want to see on my feed, I'm ok with it. Am I asking for too much?
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  12. Logic20/20
    Yes - people are unconsciously sharing content. Just b/c they read it doesn't mean they want to post it but that's what the apps are doing, sharing it on your behalf regardless if you consciously choose to share it or not. It's ruing the true value of content sharing.
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  14. Productive Web Apps -  I think so, I find that the Google+ feed is the stuff I actually want to see. Most of my facebook feed is spammy now!
  15. Luis Miguel -  What's that?
  16. Histerius -  Yes, FB went way too far, I don't like that at all.
  17. Redwan Huq-  Facebook has habitually stepped over the line for privacy. In the words of Charlie Murphy, Facebook is a habitual line-stepper.
  18. David Abraham -  Yes, at least as implemented. Machine-gun to the foot IMO.
  19. Dario de Souza Beio Marques -  Please define too far , because what FB has done equates to the birth of a digital big brother, or might I say: Big Zucker is watching you...watch others

    https://plus.google.com/u/0/106352275471397691972/posts/j7mFTSMVZGy

    [Edit]: it is not frictionless sharing, it is frictionless spamming.
  20. Barbol Carmichael -  Facebook went too far long ago.
  21. Alessandro Mencarini -  Frictionless sharing is an interesting concept, but in its current implementation it will bury good content under a pile of half-listened songs, half-read articles and so on.
  22. Sam Carson -  Many people focus on the privacy issues. I think it is also too far because it is actually boring. Being forced to be a peeping tom on what Guardian articles people are reading isn't particularly insightful. The vetting process of choosing the share ensured there is some usefulness behind the intent to share.
  23. Ron Rieneckert -  I agree with Alessandro & Sam. 

    Sometime in the past few months, my Facebook news feed became more noise than signal. Very little of it is actually relevant to me any longer, so I've all but stopped checking it. 

    Not all of this irrelevancy is because of 'frictionless sharing', but it sure isn't helping.

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