Major Facebook Fubar – Information “Lost”
Hmmm, makes you wonder how safe your information is being maintained by Facebook — if your information can be become – poof – “lost.” If you’re concerned about security and privacy with your Facebook account, well, be concerned…
At a flick of a switch, email and privacy Facebook notification settings have been reset for thousands of Facebook users today — “Unfortunately, your email notification settings have been lost.” After being notified by others, we also checked and yes indeed, we received the below email from Facebook (click any pic below to embiggen):
Ok, great… So in logging into Facebook, we were greeted with the below warning. Better than being superpoked, I guess…
So in clicking over to the Email notifications page, all items that were turned OFF were inexplicably TURNED ON:
First, makes you wonder what else can be lost. Secondly, don’t they have any backups?! Third, SUPERPOKE!
Update — it looks like Techcrunch decided to run this story too.
November 29th, 2008 at 7:24 am
So, they had a snafu and messed up some user's settings.
Your writing in this article makes it sound like they lost user's critical personal data.
They screwed up your NOTIFICATION settings, and were kind enough to send you an email asking you to reset them.
This kind of stuff happens all the time, and at least it only happened to a few THOUSAND users, versus a few MILLION/BILLION.
Relax.
November 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am
What's next? It shows the cracks in Facebook's foundation.