How Facebook Handles Inappropriate Content. Ensuring Facebook's community of more than 900 million users abides by the company's user policies is a task that requires hundreds of employees.
Based in Menlo Park, Austin, Dublin and Hyderabad, these employees field user reports of inappropriate posts around the clock. On Tuesday, Facebook revealed details about how they get the job done. Reports of inappropriate content, which users can submit with just a couple of clicks, are directed to one of four support teams. An Abusive Content Team handles spam and sexually explicit content. Meanwhile, a Safety Team handles threats of vandalism, graphic violence, credible threats of violence and illegal drug use. Facebook to Let Advertisers Bid on Your Browser Data. Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Perfect Technocracy: Facebook's Attempt to Create Good Government for 900 Million People. Facebook's desire for efficiency means democracy is out and technocratic, developer-king rule is in.
Reuters/FakeTV Let's stipulate that Facebook is not a country, that real governments fulfill many more functions, and that people are not citizens of their social networks. Nonetheless, 900 million human beings do something like live in the blue-and-white virtual space of the world's largest structured web of people. And those people get into disputes that they expect to be adjudicated.
They have this expectation in part because Facebook has long said it wants to create a safe environment for connecting with other people. Except in this case, the someone really is a corporate person. Any individual decision made by Facebook's team -- like taking down this photo of a gay couple kissing -- is easy to question. Facebook Now Lets You Edit Comments. We’ve all done it.
Your friend uploads a picture of their new puppy to Facebook, and you somehow manage to leave a comment congratulating them instead on their “new pappy.” So what do you do? Until now, the only thing Facebook would let you do to correct the error was delete the comment and start again. But starting Thursday the site is also now offering the ability to edit your comment — and change that pappy back to the puppy you intended in the first place. The edit option appears in the form of a small pencil icon on the right side of your comment. Facebook told Mashable the site will also be "showing the editing history for a comment so that subsequent commenters or likers have the full context of the conversation.
" The editing ability went live on Thursday evening, and will be gradually rolling out to all users over the next few days. Has the comment editing system kicked in for you yet? Facebook: Here's How You Pay to Promote Posts. Facebook Is Using Lists To Keep You On The Site Longer. Like everything else Facebook does, today's introduction of Interest Lists is about keeping you on the site longer.
While some are comparing the lists to the similar feature Twitter launched in 2009, remember that a Twitter list simply organizes people you follow and still has you clicking links to source sites. Facebook lists, on the other hand, organize content from your news feed and makes it more manageable. Facebook Briefly Incorporates 'Interest Lists' Facebook Growing Up, Focusing on Infrastructure Efficiency and Security. Facebook is showing new signs of maturity and a willingness to tackle tough, unsexy problems.
In the last few days it’s made four announcements around hardware efficiency and cybersecurity: the opening of a self-cooling server farm in the Arctic, the launch of its Open Compute foundation for infrastructure open sourcing, details on its Facebook Immune System for thwarting hackers and spammers, and the release of new login security features for users. Even though Facebook is a fail fast-style startup run by a young CEO, it’s concentrating on stability.
This means reducing both server costs and the vulnerability of the user experience to malicious parties trying to exploit it. As the company heads towards an IPO, these long term efforts could bolster confidence in potential investors. Facebook stepped up efforts to create cheap, environmentally friendly data centers today with the announcement of plans to build a new server farm in Luleå, Sweden. [Image credit: Fast Company] Facebook Introduces Ads That Appear When You Log Out. Ads will start popping up on mobile News Feeds and as you log out of the site, Facebook announced Wednesday.
Although mobile ads had been reported by Bloomberg in December, the idea of a log-out ad, which will go live in April, is new. Mike Hoefflinger, director of customer marketing at Facebook, announced the ads will reach the 37 million people who log out of Facebook every day. Log-out ads, or "stories" as Facebook prefers they be called, are one of four new "Premium" products for advertisers that were announced at the Facebook Marketing Conference in New York. The other placements include right-hand ads on the homepage and ads within the News Feed on desktops.
Facebook Ads Announcements: Everything You Need to Know. Facebook gathered hundreds of people into the Museum of Natural History in New York on Wednesday for its first-ever Facebook Marketing Conference.
At the top of the agenda was Premium, a new suite of products for marketers designed to leverage the social network's access to your friends and friends of friends. As a user, you're not likely to notice any huge differences, except maybe for the new Timeline Brand Pages, a related announcement. But there are some subtle changes that Facebook believes enable marketers to evolve their relationship with consumers beyond advertising and into "stories. " Facebook Will Verify Celebs. Pixable Brings the Hashtag to Facebook Photos. Photo-sorting app Pixable is bringing the Twitter-style hashtag to Facebook photos.
How to Fine Tune Your Facebook News Feed Like a Boss. Facebook Gets a Public Square in MingleWing. Do you get tired of the same dozen or so friends commenting on your photos, links and videos?
A new service aims to put your Facebook shares in front of a whole new audience, inviting comments and discussion from — shock! — people you might actually not know. MingleWing is a separate site that takes anything you share on Facebook and puts it on a public page that other "minglers" can view or comment on (you retain control of exactly what appears there, of course). The site organizes posts into various topic sections — Tech, Current Events and Cute, for example — in a visual interface similar to Pinterest so anyone visiting is encouraged to browse and comment. Facebook Suggested Events Predicts Where You'll Want to Go. Advertising on Facebook. Facebook Wants You To Know All About Its Ads. Why Facebook's Seamless Sharing is Wrong. Facebook recently instituted a new program that makes it easy for 3rd party websites and services to automatically post links about your activity elsewhere back into Facebook and the newsfeeds of your friends.
It's called Seamless Sharing (a.k.a. frictionless sharing) and there's a big backlash growing about it, reminiscent of the best-known time Facebook tried to do something like this with a program called Beacon. The company has done things like this time and time again. Critics say that Seamless Sharing is causing over-sharing, violations of privacy, self-censorship with regard to what people read, dilution of value in the Facebook experience and more.
Facebook auto-sharing gone wrong, and how to fix it. Editor’s note: it turns out that the image below is a fake–there’s no porn app that’s integrated with Facebook’s frictionless sharing. We had no idea. Regardless, it’s an example of the type of thing that can happen with oversharing, and our instructions for changing your privacy settings to avoid it still hold true. We love reddit for letting us find things like this. And this, ladies & gentlemen, is reason number 380988390281 why YOU need to be in control of what you share, not Facebook: Hey guys! Give Up, Facebook: Social Commerce Will Never Catch On. Even though Facebook suffered social commerce fails with the Delta ticket window and the now-shuttered Facebook Deals, Facebook social shopping applications for Facebook still keep popping up. A new study from Sociable Labs shows that 50% of shoppers are logged into Facebook while shopping on an e-commerce site.
While that's interesting data in and of itself, the study does not prove any correlation between sharing on Facebook and shopping on e-commerce sites. In other words, businesses may see that their customers are on Facebook - because, really, who isn't on Facebook, save for the very paranoid - yet the idea of sharing what you buy through the world's largest social network has not, and will not, become a part of the Facebook user's experience.
Unless it centers around an e-commerce site like EBay that people already know and trust. Social commerce dashboards like Payvment allow Facebook users to launch free stores on their Facebook pages. Facebook Begins Official Timeline Rollout. On Facebook? Like the Mashable Facebook page and check out our favorite articles covering social media, tech news, and digital culture! Facebook officially took the "beta" label off its much-publicized Timeline this evening, but it's rolling out the new feature gradually. New Zealand is currently the only country to get Timeline, the company said in a blog post this evening. Other regions will get it in the "near future. " Facebook first unveiled Timeline in early September, and quickly provided the means for developers and curious users to enable the feature. Facebook Begins Limited Timeline Rollout in New Zealand. Is Facebook’s Timeline Just An Advertising Sellout?
Facebook Timeline: The Complete Guide. On Facebook? Like the Mashable Facebook page and check out our favorite articles covering social media, tech news, and digital culture! Facebook Timeline has been on the back burner for months now, after it was first announced at the company's f8 conference in September. Despite much delay, it is finally rolling out to the public, starting with New Zealand. That means it's only a matter of days before it comes to you, so brace your News Feed, because the fans and protestors are coming in full-force. The Facebook Timeline Button That Hides Your Past From Strangers' Prying Eyes.
How to Get Old Facebook Back. Facebook Timeline: Disliked by the Masses. Facebook To Launch Subscribe Button for Websites. Facebook Tests Negative Sentiment Analysis Feature For Pages. Christopher Heine | December 2, 2011 | 0 Comments inShare62 Stat shows how many users respond negatively to a brand post. Facebook is testing out a negative feedback measurement feature for its recently upgraded Page Insights product. When page administrators - who are in the test pool - click on the "engaged users" metric, they'll currently see the number of Facebook users who responded negatively to a brand post. First reported by Wise Metrics' blog, ClickZ News confirmed the test status of the feature.