More cross-platform madness

[jethrien]

So I do SparkPeople--it's an online diet tool that you can track your exercise and calories and such. I've found it pretty helpful when I start getting off track on what I'm eating, as it helps me recalibrate from restaurant portions back to a reasonable amount of food.

Anyway, they just started trying to convince me to log on via Facebook. You want me to log on to a diet website, which includes exactly what I've eaten and exactly how much I've weighed, for years, that I've got a pseudonym for, through Facebook. The site that gleefully broadcasts every possible thing to anyone you've ever met for 30 seconds, and is known for problematic privacy controls.

Umm. No.

(It's not so much that it's that confidential information. If someone wanted to know, I'd tell them. But there's a difference between being ok with the information available if someone really looks and broadcasting it to hundreds of people.)

Comments

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

I'm sufficiently paranoid about Facebook that I log in via a separate browser altogether.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is pretty paranoid.

The fact that I log in maybe once a month and have posted barely anything ever does mean I'm not too worried. There's not a lot of information I've put up there. There's a fair number of pictures of me that other people posted, but there's not much I can do about that and I don't think anyone else is much better at this point.

[nanonicole.livejournal.com]

I love it. I can just see my news feed (or whatever it's called).

"Jethrien has eaten a salad with a hard boiled egg and 5 croutons for lunch."

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I suspect that's exactly what we'd get. I suspect what they were aiming for was more like "Jethrien lost two pounds this week!" so all of your friends can "like" it. And if you gain weight, you can be appropriately shamed by everyone you've ever met.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

...Are we friends on Facebook? I've lost track, in that I didn't realize you were on it.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

I think so.

[dushai.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is pretty paranoid.

I do the same thing. (Actually just a completely separate Firefox profile, but it's effectively the same as a separate browser, and nearly as much effort.) Facebook has been pretty staggeringly sloppy in the past.