Facebook Privacy Scanner. Privacy Guide. Facebook's New Privacy Controls. Only last week, news media all over the planet carried news about Zuckerberg’s own sister not being able to understand Facebook privacy settings.
News was that a personal photograph shared with friends leaked all over the social networking website. Obviously, there is much more to Facebook than we know. Given that Facebook follows you all over the Internet, wherever you go, it should not surprise you if I think there are deliberate/ignored bugs in the system. Before providing you with the video on what can be the best Facebook Privacy settings, let us take a look at one such glitch I found out recently. Facebook Privacy Bug For the time being, I will call this “bug”, a glitch. Your post will be visible to the friends of your friends even though a separate option exists to set it up like that; orOnly if you tag a friend, his or her friends also get to see the post that can be as private as a family album! Open your Privacy Settings.
Stay safe! These links will also interest you: Facebook's privacy bait and switch. The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook. About Facebook is a great service.
I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user's personal information have become more and more permissive. This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010.
Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. Data The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. Types of Personal Data Audiences Implementation About me. Webtrends Launches Analytics for Facebook Marketers. Webtrends, a company that offers marketers detailed web analytics, has rolled out new measurement capabilities for Facebook, including the ability to view Facebook data alongside data for other channels.
Tools like this are useful because Facebook's own platform for this, Facebook Insights, runs three days behind, doesn't measure custom tabs or apps, and doesn't integrate with analytics for other digital marketing channels. The tools work inside Facebook to provide detailed analytics data about applications, custom tabs, brand pages, contests and advertisements, among other things. This wasn't easy to achieve because most of Facebook (Fan Pages included) doesn't allow JavaScript, but Webtrends developed a custom API to get around that. Third-party applications built on the Facebook platform are easier because JavaScript is permitted. The special features here are the ones related to comparing data between Facebook and other digital channels.
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell. Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters.
Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long enough to understand what’s really going on with these games. The real story isn’t the business success of these startups. It’s the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success. In short, these games try to get people to pay cash for in game currency so they can level up faster and have a better overall experience. Which is fine. The reason why I call this an ecosystem is that it’s a self-reinforcing downward cycle.
Here’s the really insidious part: game developers who monetize the best (and that’s Zynga) make the most money and can spend the most on advertising. The games that scam the most, win. And some users aren’t dumb, either. Left alone, the system really will slide into a full blown disaster. Examples Of Scams: