Facebook stalking; everyone's done it at some point. But now it seems like it's being made far too easy.
As anyone with a Facebook account will have noticed, the picture viewer has been updated to display photos better. What people may not have noticed is that there is now a download picture button underneath each photo.
Oddly enough, this option doesn't just appear under your own photos, or under photos of friends. It's available for any photos that haven't got a privacy setting, even people you're not friends with. It's not yet known if this is a programming error, or Facebook just didn't see a problem with it. Either way, if you don't protect your photos correctly than one and all can download them (in high quality, no less).
It's not just Facebook itself that's aiding Facebook stalkers. A third party app, Breakup Notifier, allows you to choose friends that you're interested in romantically, but are in relationships. The app then emails you to notify you straight away if their relationship status changes. Presumably with this playing in the background.
And they say romance is dead.
The app is gone already! Facebook deleted it. Common sense prevails.
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