There’s been heaps written recently about the issues surrounding Facebook’s new ‘frictionless’ social media changes. What’s just occurred to me, though, is with the new ‘privacy’ settings for Facebook posts. Here’s a right bastard troll.
- Make a phishing post for one person.
- Set privacy on the post so that only you and they can see it.
- Get a decent bite.
- Set privacy to ‘public’
Grats, you’ve just fooled someone into saying something in ‘public’ which they may well never have wanted to. For extra points, add some comments to it starts appearing in people’s StalkerBar. Naturally, don’t forget to take a screenshot of the bite just in case the replier notices what you’ve done and deletes their comment. As a part-time troll, I’m in two minds as to whether the privacy methods on Facebook enhancements to trollability is A Good Thing, or not.
Still, I look forward to this method being mentioned in the divorce courts under ‘bloody Facebook’.
edit: For the record, seems this kind of behaviour is impossible on Google Plus.
