The Post Launches Social Reader As a Newspaper For Facebook. 14 Tips For Successful Facebook Campaign. Social commerce - Facebook apps that offer more than marketing. New Facebook: how to take control of your privacy. This post was originally published on Mashable.com Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features. And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profile, see their friends’ activities in real time or have their preferences in music, movies and reading shared as they’re consuming media.
But to Facebook’s credit, it has tread into a new level of sharing with some caution. In many ways, its privacy settings are more accessible. Advertisement If you’re bothered by some new features, however, it might take a couple of clicks that are less than intuitive to opt out of them. Adding an app to your Facebook timeline Whenever an app wants to add updates to your Facebook Timeline, this box will appear. Controlling who sees your activity Clicking the people icon next to "This activity is visible to:" lets you control who will see your activity from the app. Custom privacy settings for gestures.