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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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#measurePR Recap: Complying Socially with Eric Schwartzman

Waxing UnLyrical

The primary discussion centered on privacy, and what the boundaries are for those who monitor social media. Eric noted that the biggest risks of social media monitoring are: intrusion of privacy, invasion of privacy, and the potential to use social media for job applicant screening.

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Facial Recognition, Privacy and Social Media

Laurel Papworth

This is what I was talking about in this post on privacy and facebook facial tagging and recognition -. I’m live blogging from the Augmented Reality Event conference in Santa Clara the Viewdle application so that’s all for now folks! Scary but for “society’s good&# !!!

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The Future of Facebook: Three Trends Worth Watching

Ignite Social Media

But current events have made our team wonder what impact new changes will have for social media marketers. Why support multiple messaging applications and why block users of one platform from communicating to users on the other? We have new paid events options for businesses, for example. Let’s jump right in.

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What I Like About the New Facebook Timeline Profile, Privacy Settings, and News Feed

Kikolani

Hide Updates by Third Party Applications. A Longed For New Privacy Settings. Head over to your Privacy Settings, and Edit Settings for How Tags Work. Life Events. If you had a major life events you can highlight it on your timeline. Facebook Applications Adding Embarrassing Content to Your Profile.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

I like that my online communities help surface the content that is most relevant to me and it seems to keep me up to date with news and events. Today, we are hearing reports that Facebook is going to launch a reader application, and my first thought was, I hope this won’t change Facebook’s current update feeds. Image via CrunchBase.

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

There are, though, a few ways that the search engines could be picking up on this: - A Facebook application gone awry. Perhaps these users all have a certain common Facebook application that they’re using that is causing this data to be indexed.