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Important Facebook News: Privacy Updates

Almost Savvy

As you probably know, Facebook has been facing a barrage of complaints regarding their “public is the new norm&# approach to privacy which resulted in much of your/our content being made public by default. The feedback we heard from users was that in our efforts to innovate, some of our privacy settings h ad become confusing.

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How Facebook Hurt My Feelings | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

How, then, with all this self-confidence, did Facebook (a thing, not even a person) manage to hurt my feelings? I am fairly particular about who I connect with on Facebook. Strategies for using Facebook run the gamut from closely manage to wide open. We used to communicate on Facebook. Why would she have blocked me?

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Facebook Tip: How To Choose Who Can See Your Friends

Almost Savvy

Most people don’t seem to mind if the world can see who they’re connected to on Facebook. When logged into Facebook, look over to the right at the top of the page. One of the many recent tweaks which hasn’t received much coverage is the ability to control who sees your list of friends. Click on Profile.)

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Paying Homage to the Social Technographics Ladder

Ignite Social Media

As I understand it, the trio at Forrester built the Social Technographics framework for their excellent book, Groundswell , and it was a helpful way for those of us in the space to explain how people were engaging with sites like Friendster, MySpace, Blogger and Facebook. Why Do People Use Facebook? .

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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy. Reply Kelly January 11, 2008 at 12:49 pm haha! Plus, the privacy is only one way (incoming only). Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay.

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Facebook to Google+: "Hey Look, We Have This Too - It's Right Here!"

Stay N' Alive

Facebook announced an expected update to its service today that is scheduled to be released on Thursday. I wrote about the release of Facebook Friend Lists back in 2008 when Jason Alba and myself launched my first book, I'm on Facebook--Now What???

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We didn’t mean that transparent…

Direct Marketing Observations

Transparency and openness are so 2008 and you’re so 2000 late. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy. What Do New Facebook Features Mean for Your Privacy? See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You. See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You. We care about our privacy.

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