Facebook's PR team battled back by saying 35% of users had made changes to their privacy settings during the process, which supposedly implied that they knew what they were doing.
TVs from the top three best selling US brands - Samsung, LG and Vizio - have also been found to be switching off power-saving features without warning, as soon as consumers make "out of the box" changes to their main picture menu settings, which can double the TV sets' energy usage.
This is done by making a change to their account settings in the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes and iBooks store on their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or via iTunes on their Windows PC.
What was especially tricky about our test was how much it required from the users to be successful - it required 5 steps to change their settings.
Teens who choose to change their settings will be asked twice with a pop-up notification whether they are sure they want to share information broadly, Facebook said.
This led many to have to manually change their settings back, just as this switch results in another requirement for manual intervention to make sure you don't get a flood of new messages you weren't noticing before.
Like Us v. Th3m's more famous game "You Can't Do Simple Maths Under Pressure," the "Realistic Facebook Security Simulator" makes good use of the clock -- putting pressure on players to quickly change their settings before their lives are ruined by tagged double chins or suspiciously well-notified burglars.
So, iHOMA2 records a list of the 24 variables currently able to be changed and their settings.
On the new site, users can run a Privacy Checkup as well as a Security Checkup, which helps walk them through making the changes they want to their account settings by checking which data they want public or private, and what data Google can use to personalize their experience.
