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Share stuff from Dropbox in your Facebook Groups

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58 pointsderpenxyne14 comments

Now people can finally reveal their illegal downloads to the world through Facebook.

Getting comfy with Facebook makes me leery of Dropbox's commitment to privacy.

Looks like a huge partnership for Dropbox -- congrats guys.

Very useful. I didn't think it was possible to make Dropbox better but... they did.

I'm not sure how useful this is [for me]. All the computers I access Facebook from I already have a synced dropbox set of directories so choosing one of those is just as much effort as choosing the from the Dropbox picker menu.

I can see that it could be useful for people accessing facebook from public computers or other temporary devices.

When I first read it I assumed you got a directory in Dropbox that when you posted a document to it, it added it automatically to the linked facebook group.

I wonder what this means for http://filepicker.io It's validation of the market but they're not part of the deal.

We're working on it :D

To me, this is a big win for Dropbox but a big detriment to the ecosystem and other storage players. It's essentially like saying "Only works in IE6" - worked well to buy IE lock-in, but was a Bad Thing for the web. We, of course, want to help rectify this!

I wonder if it will work from mobile?

Great partnership, however I do not want to become one with the Facebook collective. I spend too much time over there already.

Aside from my personal feelings about Facebook being the devil, congrats on a neat feature.

Facebook isn't the devil, it's just a bunch of nerds running a hugely complicated system and trying to be self-sustainable. Anything else is simple paranoia.

"... Anything else is simple paranoia."

Not commenting on whether or not Facebook is "evil" as I just don't know. But we really need an antonym for 'paranoia' that is just as condescending.

Whenever someone raises a valid concern when people reuse their password everywhere, when a company pushes the privacy boundary, when people don't make backups, etc, they are often faced with dismissive replies such as "Oh who is going to bother hacking me?", "Oh you are just paranoid" etc.

'Hapless' may be?

Relevant xkcd http://xkcd.com/743/

In reply to your comment, flyt, "trying to be self-sustainable" is the end. This doesn't preclude "evil" as the means.

Whenever anything with Facebook goes up on Hacker News why does at least one person always feel like mentioning that either they "dislike using facebook" or "don't use facebook at all"?

Basically for the same reason that this onion article is funny:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

What's next? Stack overflow?

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