And at the bottom of the news feed, were a succession of statuses posted as:
ALERT: Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on "Settings" up at the top where you see the "Logout" link. Select "Privacy". Then select "News Feed and Wall". Next, select the tab that reads "Facebook Ads". In the drop down box, select "No One". Then save your changes. Do it now. Help your friends...cut and paste this into your status.
No wonder there are applications, like this "Birthday Gift" that has card samples with pictures that looked randomly picked out from someone's album and then splashed on the cover! And I thought my settings were all fine until I went to check "Facebook Ads" as instructed, and behold, it was set to "Only friends"! Now how did I miss that?!
I experienced this random pic posting, done by a previous "friend" at Facebook. The person knows that I take privacy matters seriously but "Boffo" (not real name) still posted my pic with a caption to entice others to take note and reply. I asked "Boffo" why was my pic posted without my permission and told "Boffo" to take it down.
No reply, no action for days until one chimed in... "I knew you'd react this way when we posted this..." "Sorry we'll take it down." "By the way, (to Boffo) post other pics of our childhood days."
Oh well, I know a taunt from a sincere apology but I just kept my cool and did not reply. Besides, I also received some messages from other friends expressing their disgust at what's happening.
The "controversial" pic was eventually taken down, but soon, other pics, mostly group pictures were posted with my image rubbed out or obviously cut out of our group pictures. No apologies from "Boffo" at all.
So I simply deleted "Boffo" off all my lists then.
