warnings/info about profile posts being not being private conversations?

[cwerdna]

Not sure if there's a better place for this.

I noticed at the bottom of What's new (and went back further) is that some folks seem to (I think) be under the belief that profile posts to others are private conversations. Some have included PII like phone numbers. I don't think the people who wrote this messages intended for everyone who visits TMC to se their phone #.

Perhaps there should be a warning/prompt/hint that profile posts aren't intended for private convos and to instead send a private message (e.g. start conversation) instead?

 

[cwerdna]

It's still going on.

I still see what are probably intended to be private messages and at least two phone numbers, so far.

 

[cwerdna]

Bumping again...

At What's new at the bottom, I continue to see it including people's personal phone numbers.

 

[danny]

Luckily very few people even know that "What's New" page exists as it is no longer shown to users unless they specifically turn it on in their account settings.

Yes, there is an issue where people for some reason think that Profile Posts are private, even though they are designed to work and look basically like Facebook's wall, etc. We'll see if there is a reasonable way to let people know on that page that they are public.