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Limited profile included in "Facebook friends"?
Please would you tell me whether Facebook users who are included on the Facebook "Limited Profile" list are considered to be "Friends on the Facebook service" within SocialThing?
I ask because I have my status updates on Facebook visible only to users who are not on my Limited Profile. If those users join SocialThing, they will see information that I have configured to be protected in my Facebook settings. This may also apply to posted items or other Facebook activity.
Please would you confirm?
I ask because I have my status updates on Facebook visible only to users who are not on my Limited Profile. If those users join SocialThing, they will see information that I have configured to be protected in my Facebook settings. This may also apply to posted items or other Facebook activity.
Please would you confirm?
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Actually, because of the way Facebook doesn't provide any permission levels/details whatsoever (lame), we have to retrieve activities such as the ones you're talking about -from- other accounts. That is, if I am a limited friend (better not be), then Socialthing pulls any activities from my friends that -I- can see. So if I can't see your status messages on Facebook itself, then I can't see them through the API from my account's point-of-view.
Now, all this is negated if you decide to publish your stuff on your public profile as opposed to friends.
The one I'm questioning myself, is the "Show with friends on any service". I'll have to look back into how we handle that, and I'll post my results here.
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I'm definitely looking into it. The biggest issue here is that Facebook may not pass us the information that a friend is a "limited profile" friend. If that's the case, there's no way for us to distinguish friends. In that case, what we have planned is a way to have specific privacy settings for some friends in ST! and not others.
I'll continue to research the issue...
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Inappropriate?I'm definitely looking into it. The biggest issue here is that Facebook may not pass us the information that a friend is a "limited profile" friend. If that's the case, there's no way for us to distinguish friends. In that case, what we have planned is a way to have specific privacy settings for some friends in ST! and not others.
I'll continue to research the issue...
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Inappropriate?Actually, because of the way Facebook doesn't provide any permission levels/details whatsoever (lame), we have to retrieve activities such as the ones you're talking about -from- other accounts. That is, if I am a limited friend (better not be), then Socialthing pulls any activities from my friends that -I- can see. So if I can't see your status messages on Facebook itself, then I can't see them through the API from my account's point-of-view.
Now, all this is negated if you decide to publish your stuff on your public profile as opposed to friends.
The one I'm questioning myself, is the "Show with friends on any service". I'll have to look back into how we handle that, and I'll post my results here.
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Inappropriate?That's great, thanks guys
>The one I'm questioning myself, is the "Show with friends on any service".
> I'll have to look back into how we handle that, and I'll post my results
> here.
That's what got me thinking about it. I have people on limited profile on Facebook who don't get to see my status updates. I use Ping.fm to replicate my status updates to other services like Twitter and Jaiku. If my Facebook "Limited Profile" friends log in to SocialThing, they won't see my status updates via Facebook, but if I allow "friends on any service" to see my Twitter updates, they will get to see them.
They might not realise they're limited, because they'll never realise the data was also in Facebook (just concealed).
Its a toughie. I guess it just means that if you have data you'd like to keep for a restricted set of friends, you have to ensure that isn't posted to a service that is listed as "share with friends on any service". That seems like a bit of a shame, but anything else might become prohibitively confusing.
Am glad its not me having to figure out the solutions! Keep up the great work guys, version 2.0 is looking very tidy and I'm drumming up as much interest from my friends as I can :D
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