Somebody from FB - please tell us this is a bug.
Check westlaw on it https://content.next.westlaw.com/6-502-0467?transitionType=D...
I think the real issue, is people think they are doing one thing, but doing another.
depending on the age of your account, you'll notice that the notifications for SMS maybe defaulted on, this didn't matter if you didn't have a phone number associated with your account. When you add a phone number to your account, its not "solely" 2FA, you add the number to your account, and 2Fa is enabled, just like all the other default setting that apply to phone numbers.
which is why when people are responding to the SMS its posting on their wall, its because what their settings are set to do.
see the settings below where they can disable this. https://imgur.com/a/6pOHH
It's another case of people screaming to the heavens about evil megacorp. when in reality they can't be bothered to check their own settings.
Facebook's settings are often opaque and unintuitive, and some of the stuff around notifications qualifies as dark patterns. Also, as you mentioned, Facebook has a history of using selfishly-chosen defaults which are often not what a user would likely want or expect.
I'm not going to fault people for complaining about getting tricked into settings they didn't want.
but this setting is Settings>Notifications it's not really buried.
I suppose I'm not upset at people who discovered the issue, but I am annoyed at mashable.com for making it a specifical when it shouldn't be, quoting a "a self-described technosociologist, professor at UNC" and their uninformed statements.
Not yet. Can't wait for the EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) to come in effect, which includes such a requirement - it won't affect USA users directly, but hopefully it will force some companies to change their behaviour worldwide.
That's what all cynics say.
> If anyone wants to fight the problem, delete your account. That is the only value that you can take away from that company.
No, that's clearly false. You can use your account to spread an understanding that Facebook is bad (lots of stuff in the news to share, like this), or you could abandon your account but leave it up with a profile pic saying you don't use it anymore (sort of like a reverse take on broken-windows theory). Politics and lobbying representatives is slow, but does have results (all the lobbyists in the world can't counter steady constituent calls on a non-partisan issue). But you're a cynic, and probably gave up before giving much though about what could be done.