This is why I dont fuck with Facebook

[Ares]

snopes.com: Facebook Messenger

Y'all are dumb.

[Shake]

snopes.com: Facebook Messenger

Y'all are dumb.

Why?

[Ares]

why?

in facebook’s defense, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for requesting these permissions. Messenger needs access to your camera, for instance, so that you can send pictures, and few people would want to confirm microphone access every time they use the app to place a call. these kinds of sweeping permissions are also extremely common — probably to a degree you don’t realize. Even the most vanilla apps collect extraordinary amounts of personal data: Weatherbug requests permission to view your wi-fi network and other devices connected to it; runkeeper wants permission to read your contacts and call log; even the kim kardashian game, which is all the rage these days, logs your location, your device id, and your incoming calls.

as with messenger, the kardashian game may have a valid reason to know when you get phone calls. (for instance, to save your spot before a call interrupts gameplay.)

yes, [the permission requests are potentially "insidious," but so are whatsapp, viber, messageme and virtually every other popular messaging app, all of which request comparably creepy permissions. On my insidiousness scale, at least, that ignorance of the devices and programs we use every day probably ranks higher than one overreaching app.

[facebook messenger] needs permission to record audio & video so that you can send an audio or video message. It can't do it without you asking it to.

it can make calls if you ask it to because it links your facebook and local contacts lists.

it absolutely cannot do these things without you initiating them! It needs the permission in advance so that when you ask it to do these things, they work.

much of the problem, facebook says, is due to android's rigid policy on permissions. Facebook says it doesn't get to write its own, and instead must use generic language provided to them by android. The language in the permissions "doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the messenger app and other apps use them," facebook wrote in a help center article designed to address what it calls misinformation on the topic.

while android app users must agree to all permissions before using the app, iphone users can decline to give permission to the app for some features, like access to the address book and microphone, but still use the app to send messages. Due to this, the iphone version of the app is superior for particularly privacy-conscious users.

the bottom line is that, while some users might think it’s a drag to download a separate app for a feature that was once included in a single app, they’re not actually giving up a significant amount of additional privacy in the process.

[bhn]

facebook's prime imo was in 2007....once they started to constantly make changes, i was getting more n more annoyed. i fucking hate facebook now

[MORO551]

snopes.com: Facebook Messenger

Y'all are dumb.

That site is dumb. FB Messenger was released over a year ago, i remember using it in June 2013.

Also you can turn off those permissions too on Android, you just have to have a rooted phone.

[David Smith]

I hate Facebook. I think it is a waste of space. A lot of terrible things can happen to anyone on that site

[Ares]

[mpg187]

this is fake im sure of it.

not sure how an app can access and take photos on your phones camera. lel

You can take and upload pics right in the app

[Lucifer]

[MENTION=84384]nfs444[/MENTION] is obsessed with that fat guy

[Wisheezy]

pretty much any app on google play will pop up with the permissions it requires, literally every app will have something similar. It is what it is, if you're going to get involved with modern day technolog you have to accept the fact your privacy is never 100% secure and actually private. As long as you're an irrelevant citizen of your country then you probably should just accept today and tomorrows world is going to be like this and embrace it. Or just try and stick to apps which do their best to protect your data...which even then is still a gamble tbh. NOTHINGS SAFE

[RevealTheUniverse]

Not sure what the big deal as if the NSA cannot already read your messages and phone info.
Also more then half of you apps have these premssions.