By Athima Chansanchai
For about a week, Facebook seemed to once again live up to its users' low expectations of privacy by exposing videos to people who weren't supposed to see them.a
Tipped off by one of their readers, TechCrunch wrote about the "glitch" that made it possible for Facebook friends to see a "full listing of your friends' Facebook videos, including the name, thumbnail, description, and people tagged in each clip." While it did not apply to people outside of your Facebook friends, it did mean that those who you might have restricted from viewing videos — for instance, your boss — were able to see at least enough of the videos to get a gist of what they were.a
Facebook responded to our inquiries with this statement:a
"Yesterday, we were alerted of a bug that allowed people to view thumbnails and descriptions of videos they normally would not be able to see. If someone clicked on one of those videos, they would encounter an error message. The videos themselves were never exposed. The bug has since been fixed."a
While this may be another example of why Google+ users will no doubt rave about its Circles and how awesome it is that you can choose whom you share what with, normally, it's not that hard with Facebook to edit who sees your video lists. Usually, you can just hit "Edit this video" and click on the Privacy setting and save, and you're all set.a
While there are no statistics on how many videos have been uploaded to Facebook, it's probably not as much as there on YouTube: "More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day."a
The only statistic Facebook offers that gives a hint of how many videos there might be is this: the "average user creates 90 pieces of content each month." With 750 million users, if each one uploaded a video, that's 750 million right there. If they do. But some of them may be prolific sharers, which might compensate for those who don't share at all. a
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