The Facebook Beacon service has some major issues.  This thread highlights a real problem.

 

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Shannon Whitley

7:11am November 27th

Did you know this was going to go out to all of your friends?

“Sarah bought Beowulf: An IMAX 3D Experience on Fandango.”

This seems invasive unless you allowed it.

 

Sarah

7:52am November 27th

You know, I thought the exact same thing when I saw it. I didn’t allow it. It just showed up. Ewww.
Good movie, though!

 

Shannon Whitley

8:20pm November 27th

Hi Sarah,
This is the reply that I received from Facebook. Did you ever see a notice that allowed you to opt out? It doesn’t sound like you did.

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Hi Shannon,
Just as News Feed has always enabled you to share the actions you take on Facebook with your friends, now you can share many of the actions you take on rest of the web as well.

Facebook is now affiliated with a variety of websites to have the actions you take on their sites pulled back into Facebook and communicated to your friends through News Feed. To take advantage of this feature, you must be logged into Facebook while you interact with one of these affiliated sites. When you perform an action on an affiliated site, you have the option to have this action generate a story in your friends’ News Feed. You will always be notified and given the opportunity to opt out of having that particular story published.

As a Facebook user, you have complete control to determine your privacy settings for the actions you take on other websites. The next time you navigate to the Facebook Home page after interacting with an affiliated site, you’ll receive a second reminder that that website is about to publish a story on your behalf. Again, you can choose not to publish that particular story. You also have the option to specify whether you want that website to always publish stories, notify you before publishing stories, or never publish stories for you. As always, Facebook gives you full control of your information. You can edit your privacy at any time from the Privacy Settings for Third-Party Websites page.

Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this new feature.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Rose
Customer Support Representative
Facebook

 

Today at 7:04am

i don’t recall seeing any such ‘option’ when I bought those tix on fandango.

Sarah

Today at 7:06am