The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your Privacy. 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. A new private activity log, for instance, allows you to review all past activity in one place to easily hide it from your Facebook Timeline, change the privacy setting on individual stories or delete posts altogether. 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.
Your Friends See What You Watch, Listen to and Read Through partnerships with more than a dozen companies, Facebook has added TV, movies and music. TimeLine : la machine à voyager dans le temps de Facebook - Web 1,2,3ElectronLibre. C’est le grand bouleversement chez Facebook qui a annoncé hier des nouveautés en pagaille lors de sa conférence f8. De nouvelles activités multimédia mais aussi une métamorphose totale des « profils » destinés à se muer en « Timelines » éternelles. On sait aujourd’hui que les neutrinos sont capables d’aller plus vite que la lumière. Et bien, au rayon surprise cosmogonique, voici maintenant la machine à remonter le temps de Facebook ! Une nouveauté qui ne va pas ravir les chantres de la vie privée. Les profils Facebook vont se transformer en « timelines », des portraits numériques où toutes nos actions sur le réseau social sont retraçables, depuis la naissance.
Une fois la manœuvre effectuée, une fenêtre s’affiche en haut de votre page d’accueil Facebook, vous proposant d’installer la Timeline. Décidément vous vous sentez intrépide et décidez de descendre tranquillement en scrollant et en continuant d’ignorer le carré qui propose « Start Tour ». Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation. The answer is to moderate our use of and dependence on social media, especially Facebook. Frictionless sharing, the act of passively notifying social media of all manner of activity, scares the hell out of me. Not just because of the obvious privacy implications. Frictionless sharing turns up the volume on useless information and simultaneously threatens user privacy and control of online identity. Not only is Facebook becoming too central to our online discourse – it's becoming too crapified to even be useful. We have a social media problem, and the time to turn back is now. And the answer isn't regulating Facebook.
Frictionless sharing is not the only problem, but it's the straw that broke the proverbial dromedary's back. Sometimes you want to control your audience, but Facebook's privacy controls are so complex it's never quite clear who can and can't see your messages. Social Media as Game of Telephone Social media means, more than ever, little control of your message. YIia1.png (PNG Image, 1047x593 pixels) - Scaled (97. With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy. Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it. Facebook spent years making it easier for us to share by building its network and placing “Like” buttons across the Web. Its latest idea goes much further, turning sharing into a thoughtless process in which everything we read, watch or listen to is shared with our friends automatically.
Encouraging sharing is great. Making sharing easier is even better. But this is much more than that. What Facebook has done is change the definition of “sharing.” News organizations and other content companies are eagerly accompanying Facebook down this path. After disclosing required permissions up front, apps like Washington Post Social Reader automatically share all reading activity. And this isn’t isolated to what you read via Facebook itself. This so-called “frictionless sharing” has big problems. It means little to friends It is misleading. Does Facebook know what you are up to, Privacy groups ask FTC for Facebook investigation too. Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands. Zeny Huang is an Emerging Media Strategist at JWT New York where she helps brands connect with fans in innovative and meaningful ways using social media.
You can follow her on Twitter @Zenidala. When Facebook unveiled Timeline last week, many users were struck by the idea of humanizing your profile by summarizing your life and connections. But what if you're not a human at all? SEE ALSO: How Facebook Timeline Might Radically Change the Look of Brand Pages [PICS] Timeline may have a similar effect on brands as well. More Pictures, More Branding Opportunities According to Dr. Compared to the current Facebook brand page (which only allows the profile picture and five thumbnails to be customized, hiding photo albums and tagged photos beneath the Wall), Timeline unlocks new possibilities for branding, raising awareness and creativity.
Brands Can Be More Interesting While conversations on Facebook still matter, information and content have become more prominent in the Timeline design. Privacy advocates ask FTC to investigate Facebook - Post Tech. Posted at 04:09 PM ET, 09/29/2011 Sep 29, 2011 08:09 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Privacy advocates are asking the FTC to investigate the privacy implications of its Timeline and cookie use. (Justin Sullivan - GETTY IMAGES) The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and 10 other privacy and civil rights advocacy groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to “investigate the extent of the harm to consumer privacy and safety” in the company’s use of cookies and its proposed changes to its site.
Europeans to Facebook: Where's My Data? - Digits. Hide the Past Before Opening your Facebook Profile to Subscribers. 27 Sep 2011 If you would like to hide your past activity on Facebook before allowing subscribers to your Facebook profile, the privacy page has an easy option for you. couch mode print story You have been using Facebook all this while to share pictures and other personal stuff with your close friends and suddenly, Facebook added the subscribe button that is enticing you to open your personal profile to the outside world. You are however concerned that doing so might expose some of your old activity on Facebook to non-friends. Maybe you shared an embarrassing video on your Facebook profile two years ago that friends may find interesting but it is something you’ll definitely want to hide from your new subscribers.
The Meaning Machine - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. Internet users once stalked off into the cyberfrontier looking for transcendence. The new Facebook wants you to understand your life from the comfort of its walled garden. The Meaning Machine takes all of your inputs at one end -- photographs, status updates, game plays, song listens -- and transforms them into meaning that's organized and designed.
The Meaning Machine is what happens when we apply statistical methods to human lives. Run regressions on your experience of the world and this is what you get. Right now we call it Facebook Timeline, but it will have many forms over the coming decades. The Meaning Machine relieves you of the struggle to examine your experience of the world. The Meaning Machine is part of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make the world more "open and connected.
" The Meaning Machine works for Mashable's Pete Cashmore. The Meaning Machine does not cost anything monetary. The Meaning Machine is only as good as what you put into it. The Meaning Machine is customizable. Live in Europe? Force Facebook to give you back your data - Facebook Ireland means it's liable. Facebook isn't known for respecting the privacy or rights of its users, this is nothing new, but it looks like Zuckerberg may have to anticipate a kick in the teeth. That would be courtesy of European Data Protection, forcing Facebook to become a little more transparent over how much it holds on individuals. Many people probably think that Facebook is immune from having to abide by the EU data laws. After all, isn't it a company based in California - and therefore outside the scope of the EU? At the very top of Facebook's Terms: "Company Information: The website under www.facebook.com and the services on these pages are being offered to you by: Facebook Ireland Limited Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2 Ireland" And from Section 18 of the Terms: "If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc.
According to this, take 'Facebook' as meaning 'Facebook Ireland Limited'. The New Facebook: A Timeline for Personal Discovery and Storytelling Brian Solis. InShare244 “For the first time ever in a single day we had 500 million people use Facebook” – Mark Zuckerberg For those who focus on the debate between Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter are missing the true story. Today at Facebook’s f8 developer conference we were reminded about what the story really is…you and me. No, it’s not about features, capabilities, or the number of users. We were reminded about the power of something much more important, our experiences, relationships, the content we create and share and how each paint a picture of who we are as individuals.
Today Facebook introduced features for its users and developers alike that position Facebook not as a social network, but instead as a platform for storytelling and meaningful engagement. Back in the early days of Facebook, your profile was pretty basic – just your name, a photo, where you went to school…stuff you’d cover in the first five minutes you met someone.
Opening Up the Open Graph Why? Examples include… As 'Like' Buttons Spread, So Do Facebook's Tentacles. When you click a Facebook “Like” button on other Web sites to tell your friends about a cool band, favorite political candidate or yummy cake recipe, you may know that you are also giving intelligence to Facebook the company, which makes money through targeted advertising. But did you know that even if you don’t hit the button, Facebook knows you were there? That’s because the “Like” and “Recommend” buttons Facebook provides to other Web sites send information about your visit back to Facebook, even if you don’t click on them. Since these buttons are now all over the Web — about 905,000 sites use them, the privacy-software maker Abine estimates — Facebook can find out an awful lot about what you do online even when you’re not on Facebook. Facebook says data from the buttons is used to personalize Web content, improve its services, fix bugs and implement certain security features.
But privacy advocates aren’t exactly comforted. Facebook tracks you even after you've logged out. Facebook’s ticker privacy scare, and what you should do about it. Amongst the recent new changes to appear on Facebook, there is a "ticker" (a rolling real time list of what your friends are doing). Not everyone has received it yet, because it's on a staggered rollout, but millions have already seen it. You'll find it on the right hand side of your Facebook page, in the collapsible chat bar. It's smashing if you want to keep fully up-to-date with your friends' activity, but there is a problem with it. The ticker makes it very simple for you to eavesdrop when one of your Facebook friends says something to someone you've never heard of - and even see what the stranger originally wrote too. Testing shows that your privacy settings are working the same as they did before, providing you used them in the first place. The appalling enforced eavesdropping in the ticker (your friend said something to someone you've never heard of) is the result of the lax or non-existent settings of your friends, so here's the deal.. 1.
Still baffled? Public Friends. How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline NOW. The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your Privacy. 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. A new private activity log, for instance, allows you to review all past activity in one place to easily hide it from your Facebook Timeline, change the privacy setting on individual stories or delete posts altogether. 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.
Here's how to avoid three of the new Facebook's potential privacy concerns. Your Friends See What You Watch, Listen to and Read Apps Can Share Your Activity Without Asking. Is Facebook Trying to Kill Privacy? [OPINION] Facebook New Changes 2011. Welcome to Forbes. Grow My Company. A while ago, I posted this on my Facebook Page: Tip: When you're annoyed about friends' social media posts, remember that you're in their space. If you don't like it, hide, unfriend, unfollow, but don't expect them to change. Fortunately, social media is a completely permission-based platform. It's not like junk mail, telemarketing calls, or spam in your inbox that you didn't ask for but are forced to receive.
On all social media platforms, you choose who to follow, pay attention when you want to, and unfollow when you choose to do so. But we all surely have a friend or two who uses their social media accounts in a manner that annoys or irritates others. Are you that person? 1) The Preacher: This person is likely using her account to sell something, be it a product, or service, or a pyramid scheme that she wants all her friends to join. On Twitter, this style consists of 100% information posting and 0% engagement with others. 2) The Shocker: 3) The Collector: 4) The Documenter: 5) The Expert: What The New Facebook Changes Mean For Businesses.
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