We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook.
We use FB to verify identity and help make it easier for you to invite friends and family, the people with whom you're already sharing your health info. Everything stays private within Prime.
You can post all disclaimers you want, and for the moment I'll assume what you say is true, but it won't make me use FB to log in. Despite all of those disclaimers, the login mechanism to which you've tied your app has proven multiple times to be untrustworthy.
In other words, personally speaking, it's not you that I don't trust, it's FB. I'd go out on a limb to say that's probably what the grandparent poster meant, too. I know, I know, blah, blah, blah, but I don't want to do the mental exercise of walking through the scenarios. "Okay, Prime has convinced me it's trustworthy, but how could FB hose me? Well, they could...". It's easier to just not use the app. And I want to use the app.
Yeah, but many people, especially in the developer community, have a knee-jerk reaction to sharing private data on FB even if that isn't what you are doing. You could easily alleviate the fear by supporting other OAuth providers and allowing people to use their email address to sign up.
Don't just consider it--given this summer's events and disclosures, email is the only thing even remotely reasonable.
EDIT: Seriously, I appreciate the desire to get your viral coefficients up and everything, but this is something that is actually important and can ruin people's lives; don't take it lightly.
This may be fairly reasonable to explain to someone with technical experience, but I imagine even among technical people you'll find serious resistance in slightly older generations. I'm pushing 40, and my life is focused around the net, but I still have a Facebook account partly only because my wife canceled hers (too much of a time sink...), and I check it maybe once a month, with a browser profile I use only for Facebook.
Eh, it's not a disastrous problem -- this seems like it would be something you can change without any serious reworking of your central offering. You could also have a one-time, optional Facebook connection where the patient could authorize you to grab their contacts, and then have no further contact with FB.
Twitter doesn't provide email and Facebook has a firm real name policy. Twitter does provide benefits but Facebook is better for identity verification.
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Don't have a Facebook account. Don't want a Facebook account.
Even if I did, I wouldn't want it anywhere near anything related to my healthcare. Requiring a Facebook account to sign up was a huge mistake.
We don't get posting rights to your Facebook account. We can't nor will we ever share anything to Facebook.
We use FB to verify identity and help make it easier for you to invite friends and family, the people with whom you're already sharing your health info. Everything stays private within Prime.
You can post all disclaimers you want, and for the moment I'll assume what you say is true, but it won't make me use FB to log in. Despite all of those disclaimers, the login mechanism to which you've tied your app has proven multiple times to be untrustworthy.
In other words, personally speaking, it's not you that I don't trust, it's FB. I'd go out on a limb to say that's probably what the grandparent poster meant, too. I know, I know, blah, blah, blah, but I don't want to do the mental exercise of walking through the scenarios. "Okay, Prime has convinced me it's trustworthy, but how could FB hose me? Well, they could...". It's easier to just not use the app. And I want to use the app.
Yeah, but many people, especially in the developer community, have a knee-jerk reaction to sharing private data on FB even if that isn't what you are doing. You could easily alleviate the fear by supporting other OAuth providers and allowing people to use their email address to sign up.
I really like the concept BTW!
Email is something we're currently considering.
Thanks!
Don't just consider it--given this summer's events and disclosures, email is the only thing even remotely reasonable.
EDIT: Seriously, I appreciate the desire to get your viral coefficients up and everything, but this is something that is actually important and can ruin people's lives; don't take it lightly.
This may be fairly reasonable to explain to someone with technical experience, but I imagine even among technical people you'll find serious resistance in slightly older generations. I'm pushing 40, and my life is focused around the net, but I still have a Facebook account partly only because my wife canceled hers (too much of a time sink...), and I check it maybe once a month, with a browser profile I use only for Facebook.
Eh, it's not a disastrous problem -- this seems like it would be something you can change without any serious reworking of your central offering. You could also have a one-time, optional Facebook connection where the patient could authorize you to grab their contacts, and then have no further contact with FB.
Can't you get the same benefits by using, say Twitter, as an identity verification?
Twitter doesn't provide email and Facebook has a firm real name policy. Twitter does provide benefits but Facebook is better for identity verification.
I am sure you would prefer to have all their FB data but you will lose a lot of potential customers if you demand they use FB.