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Has no one noticed that you can set permissions to the app posts. You can set it to visible to only yourself at the time of installation.

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Yes. My friends who are sharing their gossipy and sex-related readings have not noticed it. They're all shocked by what ends up on Facebook.

As for just using the social reader as a user — well, I shouldn't have to agree to an app and share my social graph just to read news stories. Friction Sharing is great and working already.

I've noticed it, but I'm still wary of that data entering Facebook at all.

Why?

Because they've consistently shown they can't be responsible with it. That's why.

I'm interested in specific examples or theoretical concerns, rather than "I said so." This is HN, not Reddit.

Facebook will disclose to Alice a list of all people who have Alice in their contact list on their phones (and use the Facebook phone app). I was told by Facebook engineers that this is working correctly.

HN discussion: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3145857

There have been other things, but most of them were fixed rather than being called features.

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