Perhaps Facebook was concerned that Al Gore was convincing thousands of unsuspecting dupes to hand over their Facebook account control, which would mean “post at will” on thousands of user accounts, resulting in millions of SPAM messages being send out to friends of the FB enabler. Here’s the pitch from Al:
This is what it looks like if you “allow” Al to “borrow” your Facebook account.
Just one day before TheClimateRealityProject.org hits the Internet, Facebook has made a bold move today to turn off automatic emailing. This is a screencap on my email from Facebook just minutes ago:
Kudos to Facebook for the timing and for reducing SPAM in general.
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I am not on Facebook, but I guess Zuckerberg is learning! He has enough bad ink about the privacy stuff – just think if he became spam central! Talk about companies black listing him!
Agree! There wasn’t even an “opt-out” on that Allow menu. It was all or nothing.
What a relief, was thinking I’d get “reality” spam all day!!
Climate Reality Project, aka CRP.
They left a letter out of the acronym.
Facebook? f******k morelike! (mods I hope this is ok, otherwise please adjust!) [adjusted. REP, mod]
I am on facebook to keep in touch with a few long term genuine (real not virtual!) friends – but the privacy policy and privacy controls need very careful scrutiny!
Link to a video debunking Gore and his fellow travellers…
http://ezralevant.com/2011/09/debunking-green-bigtory.html
Good move Facebook.
Just to note, this has been available to some people for a few weeks. The wife and I were “forced” onto this by FB 2 weeks ago. Though it’s easy enough to revert the setting through the user settings.
Don’t see how this impacts goreathon at all….
I have a number of liberal friends / relatives. I have as of yet to see any of them link to this or send out notice that they’ll be watching / participating in any way.
Al who?
Climate Reality Project, aka CRP.
They left a letter out of the acronym.
Climate Reality ALGORE Project.
Zuckerberg must fear that the Gore spam carries the Gore Effect with it; freezing all his servers.
When it comes to Facebook – count me in with Stan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT_cp2x0qso
So it wasn’t shit, it was spam hitting the fan—hard to tell the difference really.
I am on facebook, and find it a wonderful way to keep up with my interests, but I turned off my email notifications of ALL kinds from facebook as my email box was filling up with notifications from groups and individuals, which I see whenever I log into it. So I’m glad they took that step!
Cool, I might go back to using my FB account. It got so bad, I just let my wife use it for one of those games like farmville or something.
How long before Al Goon’s cohorts, smelling the scent of fresh media, try to bend “climate change” into a national emergency and weasel some law or executive order that allows them to penetrate the social networks to send out their message anyway?
Once behind the firewall…..they’ll spread like a plague trying to infect unsuspecting, and untrained, minds everywhere…and wasting valuable bandwidth.
PaulH;
That video was a pretty weak debunk. A lukewarmist trying to sound restrained and rational, almost. He’s right that this is an attempted comeback by a long-faded star, of course.
1) “This is a pretty new concept so let me explain…” – Scary!
2) “By proceeding, you agree to the Climate Reality Terms of Service and Privacy Policy” – Really Scary!
Isn’t this like giving a pill head your wallet and car keys?
Zuckerberg is no fool
They also wanted to be able to access personal FB information. But the snippet here only mentioned that they would send only their climate messages. They didn’t say that they wouldn’t read and store all available information. Do the CRP terms of service mention the FB personal information? (I don’t see mention of Facebook on the CRP web site, but I don’t know if there are different terms of service in their Facebook group)
What time zone does it start in? It’s Wednesday the 14th over in Europe even as I type… It should have started by now.
St Henela Island is just now getting Goralized!
I don’t think this affects Gore-a-thon. It looks like they’re just consolidating multiple emails into single-email summaries. You still get all the same spam, it just gets consolidated into fewer messages.
The “access my basic information” permission is something that all facebook apps require. I don’t think you can make an app that doesn’t request that. “Access my data any time” is pretty unusual though; that means the app can take actions like post to your wall anytime without you being logged in. I guess that’s what they mean by “donate your facebook account”. “Post to your wall” also allows the app to post to your friends’ walls, unless they have that disabled.
@tp
It will affect it, becuase for those that have new post messaging enabled, and their friends, there won’t be instant notices of new CRP posts constantly…it will be consolidated.
Anthony