Posted by Dinah on November 7, 2009, at 10:19:29
In reply to Re: Protections, + removal of posts from FB » Nadezda, posted by Tabitha on November 7, 2009, at 0:34:47
For others maybe.
Not for me.
With help of others I soon enough worked out the basics of how this worked, if not the overall implications. It didn't significantly decrease my concerns.
In the short time my posts showed the icon, person or persons clicked on the icon and increased the number of "hits" on the very posts where I expressed my distress that people were doing so. I don't know if they actually linked anything, and to my thinking either way still distressed me. Was it one person, or very few people? Quite possibly. But it affected how I felt about all of Babble.
Once something leaves Babble, Dr. Bob washes his hands of the civility aspects of it. This has already been an issue with blogs and probably facebook and twitter too. But the difference being that Dr. Bob didn't have "tweet this post" icons at the bottom of posts then. Thus, by my reading of grammar, either inviting, requesting, or ordering people to use the babble posts whatever the poster who wrote the post thought. It was previously possible for posters to use posts in an uncharitable manner. But Dr. Bob didn't facilitate it, and he didn't shove it under our noses with those little counters.
No doubt it says something about my personality or my history that my brain instantly leaps to the least charitable uses of those icons. And Dr. Bob may not wish to respect my concerns. Which is fine, but I then have to decide whether a place where my concerns are not respected is someplace I wish to be.
This aspect has been fixed. But I still don't have the sense that Dr. Bob understands or that he is committed to not doing this again. Or, given the large number of people on the opt out list originally, that he is committed to respecting people enough to discuss these things in the future before implementing them. And to actually *listen* not just employ broken record techniques.
I do also still have the concern that there is not some intermediate step in the link to explain privacy possibilities. As I've stated before, there appear to be a lot of people who don't think about those things as evidenced by the number of therapists who have their private facebook pages set for public viewing. I think it would be polite for Dr. Bob to make sure people understood what they were doing.
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