You know I like social media tools and enjoy using them to share information.
I am also very conscious of the implications of doing so and how public things are when I do. I manage my public persona – the parts of myself that I share publicly on the web associated with my professional work and personal passion – User-Centric Digital Identity.
Today I saw a friend share via Facebook that they were attending a cool panel at SXSW – Demystifying Online Privacy and Empowering the Digital Self
I went over to Plancast where it was listed and also signaled that I would be attending THEN it asked me if I would like to share via Facebook. “sure” I think that makes sense – I learned about it there why not, it is part of my professional public life online.
So then the Terms of Use show up…and you know they are just too extensive. Why to post that I AM going to one event must I give all this information away. It is also a go-no-go proposition. I can’t “Uncheck” things I don’t want to let plancast do. THIS IS really broken. It needs to be fixed. I need to be able to use applications AND have control over how much they can do with my data and how much freedom they have to post.
I ONLY want to give them permission to post this one item…maybe in time I might trust them enough to have full access but that will come in time as I grow to know their service and trust their business practices.
Plancast is requesting permission to do the following:
Access my basic information
Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I’ve shared with everyone.
Send me email
Plancast may email me directly at kaliya@mac.com ยท
Post to my Wall
Plancast may post status messages, notes, photos, and videos to my Wall
Access my data any time
Plancast may access my data when I’m not using the application
Access my profile information
About Me, Events, Current City and Website
Hi Kaliya,
I’m one of the cofounders of Plancast. I’m sorry you ran into this issue when trying to authorize your Facebook account with us. I agree with you that the Facebook prompt doesn’t provide enough flexibility as far as granting privileges for just one or a few particular reasons. We’d love for our users to be able to uncheck certain items, but Facebook doesn’t currently provide this as an option.
As an alternative, we could ask for only one at a time, although from a design perspective this gets a bit dicey because we don’t always know what information or access we’ll need from the user when they initiate the authorization.
This is an option we’ll consider going forward along with the tradeoffs involved. In the meantime, I suppose I can only try to assure you personally that we don’t try to do anything malicious with your data. If you authorize your Facebook account, we *will* start importing your Facebook events to share with Plancast friends, but this is an option you can turn control in the settings:
http://plancast.com/user/settings/external-services
In the meantime, if you’d like to share events to Facebook without authorizing your account, you can try using the “Like” button on the top of the page. That’s a one-time share option that doesn’t give us any of your Facebook data.
I hope this helps and sorry we came across as greedy for your dataz!
Best,
Mark Hendrickson