Like Button

Like Button. RIght, the idea behind this is that you should be able to see what your friends on places like Facebook are liking or sharing. So far, so good, but this site takes me to www.likebutton.me, and not to Facebook, but it still has my details, in that it knows who my friends are.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, I've got my Facebook profile as locked down as I can get it. I don't have anything more public than I can, and everything when possible is friends only. 'Like Button' say it has 'no access to your personal information'. Sorry, but a listing of my friends IS my personal information. I'm so not happy about this, and I really want to know how it's accessing that data so that I can stop it, or use this as as example of how Facebook is just doing what it feels like.

Comments

[John Kirriemuir]

Heidi Blanton has an article / guide explaining the latest iteration of Facebook privacy settings:

http://www.heidigoseek.com/2010/04/taming-the-beast-facebook-and.html

...which also shows how ludicrously complex they are. I'm tired of going there every few months and re-figuring them out; it's become work. Very dull work.

[Phil Bradley]

Right, I've spent some time trying to get my head around this now, and talked to the very nice chap who has put this app together. Basically it's pulling data from your Facebook account, dumping it into frames and displaying it. It's taking a list of my friends from my Facebook account, AND (this is the important point) I have to be still logged into Facebook. Even if I've closed down the app, AND closed the browser, if I let myself stay logged into Facebook I'm still logged into Facebook, though nothing tells me that I am.

Basic error on my part I think, my defence being that if it confused me, it's going to confuse a hell of a lot of other people.

Thanks to everyone here and on Twitter who helped me work this one out!