So recently I linked Cellartracker to my Facebook account. I thought it might begun to share my limited tasting notes with friends. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that this would also put all of the new wine that I entered into CT on my Facebook timeline. Today I started getting Facebook posts telling me how friends were looking forward to me saving wines that Iam buying. Worse yet, my wife sees what I entered! Big problem!
Ugggghhhh!
Can I just show tasting notes? Help!
Steve, did you scroll down? There is a really big checkbox to disable the Facebook posting.
I heard some bit on NPR this morning about how the secret police in Syria are using FaceBook facial recognition software to identify dissidents. Which begs the question: what database is it using and where did it get it?
That thing is the REAL Big Brother.
Thanks Eric! Is there a way to make this the default when entering new wines?
Steve, it is sticky. The thing is that the Facebook posting is just one setting for tasting notes and purchases.
if you use the beta site however, there you have more control.
Good thing that you have confessed in a private forum !
I tend to log out when entering new purchases, log back in to post tasting notes.
Chris, you don’t have to logout. There is a simple checkbox there to just disable it in realtime.
Cellartracker yes. Facebook no. When in the world did everyone decide everyone else had to know EVERYTHING?
C´mon, Facebook is soooo yesterday…
/Claus
Steve, do you realize that there is a cellartracker forum you could actually ask the question in a more focused direction? its not that I don’t like CT, I do, but it certainly gets weird that people ask these type of questions of Eric here.
Since we are on the topic though all these defaults should be ‘off’ , always being the users option to put them on. I’m no computer guy but that seems no-brainer. I remember the Intel issue a few years ago where privacy was in discussion when the topic of privacy & their new chipsets was in discussion. I felt the same way then. off should always be default.
Mike, the default was off, I turned it on to show tasting notes, not knowing that Facebook would automatically post everything that I did unless I selected not to.
Also, thanks for the CT forum. I am still learning my. Way around CT.
BTW, I LOVE Cellartracker!
off should always be default
Actually, that’s a great line.
Off should always be default for most things in life.
Understood. When I post to FB, I actually choose where to post. It gets strange when I see all my FB friends purchases on FB. I guess it’s the learning curve.
I still stand behind the ‘default should be off’ comment though. I browse digital cameras and all I see is adds for digital cameras on every ad site I browse afterward. Too much info. I have been meaning to check with Intel and see how I can shut the privacy chip off.
OF COURSE the default is off. Why would you drop that bomb on me? Take a moment to consider how the feature works. You have to go WAAAAAY out of your way to even turn the feature on in the first place.
Why no connection to Friendster and MySpace? Or Google+. Come on Eric! More people need to know what I am drinking and buying.
Eric - Kudos on having a really good explanation of the behind-the-scenes integration with Facebook, etc. I don’t think I’ve seen a 3d party website explain the various aspects as comprehensively.
Actually in the Beta site I am in fact using AddThis, so it supports all of those and about 300 other services. Of course that is just simple URL sharing which differs from the deeper Facebook integration tied to several events in the site.
Thanks Andrew, much appreciated! I think one of the biggest issues with all of these social services are some frankly disgusting, viral apps. (All of the app requests I get in Facebook from “friends” drive me batty, and I pretty much reject ALL of them on principle.) However, I figured as long as I was doing my own simple apps to integrate that I should be as upfront as possible about exactly what my apps do and how it hooks into Facebook, Twitter etc.
My recollection was that when I installed Cor.kz about a year ago the Facebook default was on. But I could be wrong about that…