Well...
The developers still haven't responded to the thread about this privacy intrusion their application is doing.
Even more people have blocked the application. (Thank goodness for that!)
BUT!
As it turns out, blocking the application is not enough!
Even though I blocked this application four days ago people can see me as being online!
Except I don't show up with my profile picture displayed in full colour. I show up as a white box with a blue questionmark.
(This is the standard icon used on Facebook for anyone who hasn't uploaded a profile picture or for anyone who has chosen to set their profile picture as being private (using the same privacy settings this application overrides)).
But when you hold the pointer of you mouse over the picture a label appears showing my name and "status".
Status is a way of quickly letting everyone in on what you're doing - like "Eira is blogging" - that you manually change whenever the mood strikes. The only things in your "status" you can't change is your name appearing and the word "is". (Which is a whole other debate on Facebook).
And if you click on the questionmark it seems to work as a link to my profile, since that's where I end up when I click it!
Now I don't know about you guys, but to me this seems highly unethical.
Much, much worse than anything Facebook itself has ever done (that I know of).
Now, I really don't know what choice I have. I don't want to have to leave Facebook (that I happen to like) because of one single stupid application programmed by some stupid, and either incompetent or just plain evil, developer(s). But something has to be done.
NOW!
(Hey - I know! Let's start a Facebook group about it!)
Once more - the name of the application is Who's online and it was developed by Applehat Studios.
LET'S START A CYBERSPACE RIOT!!!
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