Linden Labs, I don't want anyone "following" me. Ever! I want the option to stop it permenantly!

[Eric Castanea]

Quit treating my privacy so casually! I never gave permission for anyone to follow me! I consider it a serious intrusion to my privacy! Cease and desist!

[Faithless Babii]

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Eric Castanea wrote:

Quit treating my privacy so casually! I never gave permission for anyone to follow me! I consider it a serious intrusion to my privacy! Cease and desist!

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uhm..what are you referring to ...exactly?

[Griffin Ceawlin]

You were advised to use the privacy settings, in your other thread. Set to Nobody or Friends. Problem solved.

Edit: Linked.

[Eric Castanea]

There is nothing in my profile about following. i can fix it so nobody can view my profile, sure. But why would I want to do that?

This is stupid.

Why is this invasion of privacy enabled by default?

[Ishtara Rothschild]

In SL, being followed usually means being stalked. One of the many things that the people at the Lab don't understand about their platform. We are no facebook exhibitionists, we value our privacy.  

[Griffin Ceawlin]

You don't need to completely hide your profile to stop people from "following" you, which I think only notifies them when you use the "feed" feature. Kinda like getting Facebook "updates."

 

Privacy settings let you choose who can see your information

On the Privacy tab of Profile Settings (accessed with the wrench icon on your profile window), you may choose who is allowed to view specific parts of your profile or post on your profile feed.  For each profile section, you may select:

• Everyone - Allows the whole world to see this part of your profile on the web, even if they're not Second Life Residents.  You may not allow Everyone to post on your profile feed.
• Second Life - Only Second Life Residents may view these parts of your profile.
• Friends - Only Second Life Residents who are on your Friends list may view these parts of your profile.
• Nobody - This option is only available for your profile feed; if you select Nobody, you may stop everyone from either viewing or posting to your feed.



[Innula Zenovka]

Go to https://my.secondlife.com/settings/privacy  while you're logged in and find this tab:

Set the top drop-down for your "Feed" to Friends (as I have done) or to "No one".   Then no one but your friends (or no one at all) will be able to "follow" what you post on your wall, which is what the "follow" thing is about. 

[Eric Castanea]

Yes, thanks - I didn't realize it was only for my "feed"

But using the word "following" was not the best choice.

[WADE1 Jya]

Just curious... what private information of yours do you think is exposed by somebody "following" you?

If you use twitter, it is similar to someone following you on twitter. Rather harmless...

It doesn't mean they are actually following you around like this guy:

No private data (such as IMs, RL info, payment data, etc) would ever be exposed to this person (unless you purposefully disclosed it). "Following" just aggregates for easier viewing whatever you post publicly to your profile feed.

If they could not follow you, it would mean they would have to visit your profile page over & over again to check your feed there. Nothing new is exposed through following, its more of a convenience factor.

[Stella Carver]

If this helps any:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-3959

 They seem to think they fixed it. Different wording would go a long way toward not freaking people out. Something more like, "X" is following your feed. View your feed here., with a link.

[Ishtara Rothschild]

I think this is probably less a concern about being stalked than a rejection of all these facebook-like features and the strange lingo of social networking exhibitionists that has recently crept into SL. We don't want people to "follow" our "feeds" or to "retweet" our "tweets". This is Second Life, where nonsense like this can only serve to distract people from their immersive 3D inworld experience. We don't need other people's gossip in our profiles, or voyeurs who spy on it.  

[Stella Carver]

Stolen from a friend at another forum :-).

[Sigren Panthar]

Nicely put.

If only LL listened ..or cared about their platform and it's customers..... or carried out resident surveys...... or had a CEO who saw the uniqueness of the product and customer base he is a) in charge of and b) well paid for, instead of wishing he had a job at Twitter or Facebook.

If only. 

[Wastedyuthe]

Ok, so we can choose who we want to see our feed etc.  But i STILL don't want someone as a follower who started following me this morning.  I CANNOT remove them from my Followers list.  It's MY list, and i DON'T want them on it!  I don't care that they now can't see my feed, I don't know them, and want their name gone!

[Phil Deakins]

Just ignore the silly facebook stuff that's come into things. If you want facebook-type stuff then use facebook. Here, just use SL and none of it will be a problem for you. I.e. if you don't post to your feed (whatever that is) nobody has anything to "follow".