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I tried to read everyones post, sorry if I give duplicate info...
Ok the other day I spent some time in facebook and avatarbook and this is what I learned.
I can see any sims from EA Land. All I have to do is search by name. I do not have to be registered to avatarbook to see them. I can view as a guest. I do however have to be a member of facebook in order to change my privacy settings for my sims account in avatarbook.
So…I sign up for facebook – link my avatar page to my facebook, just because I didn’t know what else to do lol.
I want to note, when I signed up for facebook I used all my sim info, Name: Qute Pi and so on, I did not use any of my personal information. So my facebook is more like a duplication of my sims profile.
The first page that shows up is a page that shows all 8 of my sims on my account.
If I click on one of the sims I’m brought to another page; that specific sims profile page.
From there I can go to Privacy Settings and I can opt out of: Others seeing what properties I have been to, which I think was called news feeds. My bookmarks were already set to auto opt out, which I was happy to see.
(That privacy setting was for just the one sim I clicked on. I would have to do that for each sim I play. However there is only 1 I don’t want everyone to stalk lol the rest I don’t care who sees.)
So if you don’t care about people seeing what property you’ve been to then you don’t have to worry so far.
Your friend list, shows the friends on your web, which is available to any player anyway.
Any questions?
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If what Qute says is true, and you can sign up with 'phony' info at Facebook, then even if Facebook has had shady dealings with privacy in the past, I'm not sure what the issue is. If you don't want FB to have your personal info, but have to sign up with FB in order to opt-out of some features, then you still don't have to give FB any real life info....if you do then you're the one giving it willingly, nobody is *forcing* you to. What am I missing in all that that has the few people in this thread so disconcerted?
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my bad, Qute Pi didn't get approved, but my other sims name did, that is the one I used for facebook, but still is not my real name.