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The NAMBLA Facebook group has no affiliation with the actual organization, though. PC World reports it was set up by one of Arrington's friends, Jon Fisher, to highlight a glaring issue with Groups: friends don't need your permission to add you to one. Fisher was friends with Arrington and Calacanis on Facebook, and was able to add them to the group without their consent. Arrington, troubled by the fact that he could be added to any group without being asked to opt-in, then added Zuckerberg to the group, presumably hoping it would drive home the point better than a simple e-mail missive.
A Facbeook spokesperson told PC World, in the company's alarmingly typical, dismissive manner, "If you don't trust someone to look out for you when making these types of decisions on the site, we'd suggest that you shouldn't be friends on Facebook." We think the ability to confirm being added to a Group is an essential feature if there is even an option to make a group publicly viewable. It might add a layer of complexity that Facebook hoped to avoid with the Groups overhaul, but the possibility of being added to a group with which you'd rather not be associated necessitates the change.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsEdwardosanOct 10th 2010 6:23AM
It's amazing the length's sick wacko's will go to.
derpaherpOct 10th 2010 6:22PM
@(Unverified) apostrophes aren't used for pluralization.
robbieOct 10th 2010 7:33AM
I agree completely that the ability to confirm being added to a Group is an essential feature, and even more so if there is an option to make a group publicly viewable!
wabbitOct 10th 2010 7:32AM
I agree completely that the ability to confirm being added to a Group
is an essential feature, and even more so if there is an option to
make a group publicly viewable!
W DOct 10th 2010 7:55AM
TOTALLY AGREE! and especially because of the "lengths these wackos will go to" as mentioned above
www = Wild, Wild Web we need a 'Jim and Artemus' team to protect us
Jim CopelandOct 10th 2010 8:11AM
I am on Facebook. Not through any thing that I have submitted,( I have a private phone # as well as address and pay for that) but nonetheless there I am. So far I am powerless to do any thing about it. It just makes me sick. James Copeland Boca Raton FL
goawayOct 10th 2010 5:09PM
@(Unverified) Its simple. Close you account.
SteveOct 10th 2010 8:32AM
People over the age of 21 still use facebook? Anyway, Facebook was dumb for allowing members without their consent or confirmation.
Pks29733Oct 10th 2010 9:22AM
I have a better 'Facebook'. It's known as a 'phone'. It allows me to contact, talk or emails my friends versus these so called 'friends' and groups.
MaryOct 10th 2010 9:20AM
Why would anyone want to be on facebook with all the things it does that you have to protect yourself from? Seems like far more trouble than its worth. A very unsecure website.
KaryOct 10th 2010 5:14PM
@(Unverified) Sadly, some of us have friends who refuse to really interact with us any other way. I've a friend in another state who never answers her phone, emails or texts and says the 'best' way to get a hold of her is through facebook. What she really means is pretty much the 'only' way to. So it makes it impossible for the rest of us not to at least make an account when our friends spend so much time interacting on there. I put an account up, but only the bare minimum, I don't share private information or trust or care for facebook at all. But it is here and too many people are using it so we can't really ignore that fact.
chris smithOct 10th 2010 1:03PM
This is the reason i dont go to facebook, the people who run that site are immoral losers who think they can do what they want whenever they wanna do it, in my opinion the only way to show these people what they do is wrong is by everybody cancelling their facebook accounts and never going back that way they will go out of business
babszee27Oct 10th 2010 4:00PM
I JUST WISH THEY WOULD GET RID OF ALL THE NEW ADS THAT POP UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN. POP UP BLOCKERS DONT WORK. I FIND IM NOT USING FB LIKE BEFORE DUE TO ALL THE ADWARE
MaryOct 10th 2010 5:51PM
@(Unverified) Shes a facebook junkie. Apparently there are millions of em. Your right they don't interact with people any other way. I have a group of friends for 15 years who I met online in chat rooms. We still meet in the chatroom, but we also meet in person, and on the phone regularly. Facebook has made people into the ultimate internet junkies. I simply refuse to be held hostage by facebook. If a "friend" won't communicate any other way..........maybe they are not much of a friend.
ReinaOct 11th 2010 11:43PM
@(Unverified) :
I can understand why people continue on with facebook. I've lived in several countries, and for many of my international friends the best method of communication is facebook. Facebook has many unfortunate aspects, but considering that even the President of the United States of America has a facebook account, it's obviously not something that can be ignored. It simply needs better and smarter policing and protection.
Granted, you can always opt out... but then you have to deal with those consequences too, whatever they may be.
It's a technological balancing act. And I, for one, don't plan on giving up the opportunities that it does provide, regardless of its faults. I'm just smarter about what I use it for and allow to be on my pages nowadays.
TiffanyOct 13th 2010 12:14AM
@(Unverified) This is exactly what people said when the first telephone was invented!
RichOct 10th 2010 8:51PM
AND THIS IS YET ANOTHER REASON I CANCELLED MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. THE LIST GETS LONGER EVERYDAY. LEARN, PEOPLE, LEARN. FACEBOOK SHOULD BE PAYING YOU TO BE ON THIER SITE.
TomOct 12th 2010 12:59AM
just another reason to dump Facebook, they obviously don't care about people's privacy concerns
excrusadeOct 11th 2010 12:56AM
Facebook is the world's answer to the telephone...it isn't going away and will soon be the most common source of communication; who knows, it may even make the phone obsolete! Because it is no longer just a fun website, and instead, an actual tool for means of communicating with the world, someone needs to properly regulate the site. I think at this point, the governments of the world are eating up the fact that they finally found a way to track people the cheap and easy way.
Twenty years ago I saw a program about big brother and the new world order; it was said that in the future, we will have no privacy left and it won't be taken away by force, but rather by something that is seemingly innocent and convenient, something that people will be drawn to and eager to sign up for; that thing is facebook.