Facebook privacy for subscriptions... FAIL

Recently, I was dabbling with Facebook subscriptions.

As far as I can tell, even if a user configures his or her settings so that subscriptions are supposed to be visible to 'Only me', and the list of people they subscribe to is no longer displayed on their own profile, their name and a link to their profile will still display publicly at the profile of whoever they subscribed to, in the list of subscribers.

Moreover, lists of subscribers are always public.  In my own experiments, once I changed the setting to allow people to subscribe to my page, I couldn't find any way to prevent my list of subscribers from being displayed publicly.

To me, this seems like a flaw.  If I have checked 'Only me' for who can see who I can subscribe to, not only should my subscriptions not be displayed on my own profile, but my name shouldn't show up as a subscriber on the profile of whoever I have subscribed to.  My name showing up on the list of subscribers on another profile sort of defeats the purpose of 'Only me'.

At the very least, Facebook should warn users that even if they choose 'Only me' for who can see who they  subscribe to, it only prevents the list from being displayed on their own profile, and doesn't prevent their name from being include in the list of subscribers at the profile they are subscribed to.

This seems to work differently than the privacy settings for my list of Friends.  As far as I can tell, if I have set my list of friends to 'Only me', not only is my list of friends not displayed on my own profile, but I am not visible in my friends' lists of friends.

Meanwhile, I still can't figure how privacy settings for Likes, Subscriptions, and so forth apply to the information that is displayed in other users' Tickers.  Oh well.

Overhaul of my Smugmug site

I just overhauled my Smugmug site. I began by making all of my galleries smugmug stretchy so that the display would take advantage of all the available space in the browser window. As a result, photos and thumbnails now display much larger, and the overall appearance has much more visual impact. I already noticed in the day or so that the change has been in place that people are hanging around the site longer. I decided that I could take best advantage of the use of the full screen by further reducing the amount of space devoted to my banner. I redid the banner to make it text only, confined to two lines along the top of the screen, with only the most important links. I moved the search box and the Facebook 'like' box down to the footer. Take a look and let me know what you think: http://www.canghuixu.com

An appearance by one of my photos on a tour company site

A Chinese tour company site has embedded one of my photos from the Travelator in Hong Kong Central in a web page introducing the Travelator is the system of escalators that move people from Mid-Levels to Central and back. The traffic from the link turned up when I was inspecting Smugmug referrer stats. It is definitely worth checking out if you visit HK, if only because the area it passes through has become a popular place for bars and restaurants.

Here is the website: http://d.lotour.com/zhongxiqu/yule-32613.html

As you can see, the photo that they have embedded includes my watermark.

Here is the gallery that includes the original photo: http://www.canghuixu.com/China/Hong-Kong/Central-to-Mid-levels

Here is a direct link to the photo: http://www.canghuixu.com/China/Hong-Kong/Central-to-Mid-levels/10512194_qvUxs/1/729868404_mqbN7#729868852_Dv8hX

And here's the photo: