Privacy Tips For People playing Games on Facebook – Part 1
I am writing this post as the first in the Privacy Protection series, as promised in the last one. This post is specifically for those who are playing games on Facebook and that also with specific reference to Farmville. Farmville is an awesome game and I am really in love with my farm! I have been spending hours on it and it is addictive. I am troubled when my entire Facebook stream is filled with updates from my Farmville Friends.
When you are playing the game, there is a time when the game asks you for special permissions. We do not read the fine print and accept whatever is asked for. This is where the problem starts. With Farmville, the problem begins when one takes a Picture.
Here is a sample of what happens.
When we take a picture, the Farmville asks for special permissions. If you allow Farmville to allow publishing automatically, you will not be asked for permission in future before posting anything in your update stream. For people who spend quite a lot of time on Farmville (or even other games), this could mean filling their streams with updates of ribbons, like below. You may not want everyone to know every time you spend time helping 5 friends, or you are a level up!
What are your options in such a case?
I will tell them to you in the next post, to avoid making this one unnecessarily lengthy.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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