So, what do you think of the Anjunabeats Facebook login?

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Posted by cryophonik on Sep-01-2010 21:05:

So, what do you think of the Anjunabeats Facebook login?

As I'm sure many of you are already aware, the Anjunabeats forum has gone to a new format that requires a Facebook account to log in. Personally, it doesn't bother me since I rarely post there anymore, so it's a good excuse to have one less forum wasting my valuable time that could otherwise be spent posting on TA. But, it has created quite a bit of hostility over there, so I'm curious to know what you guys think.

Also, I really hope that this forum never goes that route.

Posted by tehlord on Sep-01-2010 21:14:

I think it smells of the fucking Nazi tbh

That's why I still log in the old way.

Posted by Owsey on Sep-01-2010 21:17:

Re: So, what do you think of the Anjunabeats Facebook login?

I don't have a Facebook and I have no plans to make one, but for some odd reason I can still login over there. I thought that having a Facebook to login became compulsory. I hope that I can continue posting there, because it has a very active production feedback section.

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
Also, I really hope that this forum never goes that route.

Amen!

Posted by MSZ on Sep-01-2010 21:18:

good thing i only have 3 posts there.

Posted by MSZ on Sep-01-2010 21:22:

swampers a cool guy, he wont do that shit to you.

Posted by Storyteller on Sep-02-2010 05:05:

Nice, this way they can retrieve tons of personal details about you.

Posted by Kysora on Sep-02-2010 05:11:

Only the personal details you'd be comfortable showing anyone else. If there's information you don't want out there, don't put it on your Facebook. If there's information you only want friends to see, set your privacy settings to do just that.

Not really an infringement on your privacy if they see stuff you personally entered and authorized people to have access to.

Posted by orTof�nChiLd on Sep-02-2010 05:16:

cmon cryo, def something not worth posting about

Posted by cryophonik on Sep-02-2010 05:23:

Yeah, I know. I'm sure Diginut will delete this thread.

Posted by -FSP- on Sep-02-2010 06:27:

So I can't flame people on anjuna now because my real name is out there? BOOO

Posted by Storyteller on Sep-02-2010 07:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Kysora
Only the personal details you'd be comfortable showing anyone else. If there's information you don't want out there, don't put it on your Facebook. If there's information you only want friends to see, set your privacy settings to do just that.

Not really an infringement on your privacy if they see stuff you personally entered and authorized people to have access to.

I consider everything an invasion of privacy if you're forced to hand over any information indirectly. A lot of people don't know that pretty much your entire profile can be 'read' by any third party as soon as you login using their website. But as long as Anjuna still maintains the old logins I see no problem, at least that means you're able to decide for yourself. I'm very much against the social media honestly but unfortunately I need them if I ever wanted to land 1 gig plus I need to be on them as I occasionally develop social media applications for my clients.

Posted by kitphillips on Sep-02-2010 07:56:

Posted by tehlord on Sep-02-2010 08:19:

quote:
Originally posted by Storyteller
But as long as Anjuna still maintains the old logins I see no problem, at least that means you're able to decide for yourself.

That's the rub

The facebook login is now compulsory. There's just a little glitched way to login the old way that they haven't patched up yet, although i'm sure they will.

The idea is that it's 'safer' for you to login via facebook and it's a good way to combat the spam bots.

Whhhhatever.

Posted by Storyteller on Sep-02-2010 08:26:

lol.

Nice way to hide the fact that they just want more info about you. Knowledge is power and that's the reason Google and Facebook make so much money.

It would be the above or to hide the fact that their web-programmer (assuming they have one) is too incompetent to solve the spambots problem himself. But I put my bets on the first option

Posted by Kysora on Sep-02-2010 14:20:

I might have misunderstood, is the log-in authorizing them to be your Facebook friend or to pull personal information or something? If that's the case yeah that's kind of odd.

Posted by Storyteller on Sep-02-2010 14:25:

I'm not sure what is the case now. From what I remember from logging in using openId (such as facebook) is you automatically share your personal information. I am unsure if that is still the case right now as Facebook has been under a lot of pressure lately due the it's loose definition of privacy.