If you come to read this article then I bet you already know what Facebook is. As Facebook claims that they have more than 200 million users, even I still don’t believe that all those numbers are real, but now Facebook is a top social network on the internet. Everybody talks about Facebook, TV ads also about Facebook, and now mobile phones come with Facebook support and market it. It is all about Facebook.
I like to spend some time on Facebook, to say hi to my friends and catch up with old friends. I cannot avoid that I met my old friend that we haven’t seen for more than 10 years, on Facebook. Thanks to Facebook. But recently I don’t really like Facebook anymore. Why? Because of ads and spams. Facebook has now become a free ads and spam social network.
Yes, Facebook has a privacy hole to spam ads. That privacy hole is picture tags. I really hate that feature, I wish that feature will be fixed soon. Anyone (a.k.a spammer) can tag me and my friends to their ads photo. So that photo will show up on my wall. See the screenshot below:
I don’t want to remove my friends’ status updates from my wall. But that spammer uses that hole to add them to their ads photo and then their ads show up on my wall. So I think that feature really needs to be fixed soon. The best solution I can think of is only allowing some friends or group of friends to tag a photo of me. Or only show the photo update from some friends or group of friends that are related to me, if that photo is tagged by their friends that are not friends of mine, don’t show it.
So are you fed up with this Facebook privacy hole as well? Please leave me your comment below.