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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.
How Facebook Handles Inappropriate Content
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.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.
Facebook has released details about a new feature that allows businesses to easily promote their posts and get updates in front of more eyes — for a fee. Although it was reported earlier this month that Facebook was testing a " highlighted posts " feature, the company has now made it official — with a page that explains how the promoted posts will work. "When you post on your page, it currently may only reach a limited amount of the people that Like your page each week," a Facebook staffer says via a video posted on the social network. "Promoted posts help increase the people you reach for any eligible post. It's an easy and fast way to reach more of the people that Like your page and your friends." If a coffee shop wants to let its Facebook fans know that it's having a 20% discount special, for example, the merchant can promote that post so it gets better placement in its Facebook fans' news feeds.
Facebook: Here's How You Pay to Promote Posts
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.
Inside Facebook · Facebook Growing Up, Focusing on Infrastructure Efficiency and Security
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 Introduces Ads That Appear When You Log Out
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 Ads Announcements: Everything You Need to Know
Facebook Will Verify Celebs -- And Let Them Use a Fake Name
Facebook will today start offering some users the possibility to verify their accounts, TechCrunch reports. The feature will start as invite-only, allowing public figures (in the beginning, only users with high subscriber counts will be invited) to change their account to verified status. Once the account is verified, it will appear more frequently in the "people to subscribe to" list.Photo-sorting app Pixable is bringing the Twitter-style hashtag to Facebook photos. The startup's core service sorts images from your Facebook and Twitter feeds into piles such as "Top of the Day," "New on Twitter" and "New Profile Pics." Now you can tag the photos in these categories with hashtags and see them in your Facebook Timeline. A new Facebook Timeline integration will show activity on the app within modules on user timelines. Photos with hashtags show up in a separate module in your timeline that functions like an album collection organized by sentiment rather than event.
Pixable Brings the Hashtag to Facebook Photos
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).
Facebook Gets a Public Square in MingleWing
Facebook Suggested Events Predicts Where You'll Want to Go
Feeling housebound by Facebook addiction? Facebook just released "Suggested Events," which uses your own check-in information to point out events you might want to go to in the real world. Suggested Events replaces the old Friends Events menu choice that was there before. We're not seeing this new Suggested Events feature on all our accounts — it might have something to do with whether you've checked in anywhere yet on Facebook , or it could be another Facebook slow rollout — but if you're one of the lucky ones so far, here's how to access it: <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>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.
Why Facebook's Seamless Sharing is Wrong
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! Check out Johnny's news feed! Save yourself some embarrassment–and spare your friends a barrage of oversharing–by changing your Facebook privacy settings. When you’re logged in to Facebook:
Facebook auto-sharing gone wrong, and how to fix it
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 Official Timeline Rollout
Is Facebook’s Timeline Just An Advertising Sellout?
Despite the hype, timeline may not be the most exciting, or important change coming on March 30. Expanded advertising opportunities may unlock the greatest potential for brands to grow on Facebook. In the past, Facebook ads aimed to benefit small businesses. Now, it’s clear that Facebook is courting larger companies . Most of the new ad features come with a hefty monthly minimum to advertisers, which is expected to deter many local advertisers.ALL THE CLAIMS ARE CURRENTLY UNCONFIRMED by Dec 24
"The consultant told Betabeat that Facebook has been pitching advertisers on the concept that the purpose behind timeline is to “reconceptualize” users based on their consumer preferences; the social network apparently boasts that its sponsored stories and premium sidebar ads are 90 percent accurate in terms of users they target, compared with the industry average of 35 percent.
A key point missing from Betabeat’s hyperbole: Facebook keeps about users anonymous when presenting it to advertisers. Timelines are simply aggregating more of this information, anonymously." by Dec 24
"The consultant told Betabeat that Facebook’s GraphRank, which determines the ranking and placement of content on users’ news feeds, won’t necessarily display the newest content at the top, instead taking into account other metrics, including direct payment to the social network by advertisers." by Dec 24