Facebook Privacy Violation: Secret Group Activity is Public!

I have also posted this inside a facebook discussion forum

this is a warning/plea for help

i created a secret group which means

"The group will not appear in search results or in the profiles of its members. Membership is by invitation only, and only members can see the group information and content."

THIS IS NOT TRUE

I posted to a discussion forum and to the wall in this group. In both cases, the fact that I posted, the topic of my post and the name of the group were all revealed in my minifeed on my profile page. I confirmed that all this information is visible by friends of mine who are not members of the secret group.

What's the point of making a group secret, if your activity in it is blasted to the public? Does FB not know what secret means? This is a terrible violation.

Comments

[Liz]

You know, I had this same problem, over a year ago, but in my case I had posted pictures to the group and somebody not even *IN* the group or even friends of anyone tagged *in* the pictures was able to comment on the pictures. It was very random. I e-mailed facebook about the security breach and they wanted to know more info, but I didn't get back to them (I was so through by then, but why couldn't they figure it out for themselves? it's their feature?). All this to say, the private group thing is bogus, all around.

[Steven G. Harms]

What?! Facebook rides roughshod over users' sense of privacy like Alberto Gonzales in a Caterpillar? Color me shocked.

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I see the FB Kool-Aid and I will have to pass, thankyouverymuch.

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