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Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

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During the last couple of years, Facebook’s default privacy settings have become more and more permissive – and often with great confusion to the users. During the last couple of years, Facebook’s default privacy settings have become more and more permissive – and often with great confusion to the users.

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Facebook Reactions – Three Months On

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Quintly recently analysed 130,000 Facebook posts and found that 76% of interactions were still “Likes”. There has also been some negative press on Reactions recently, privacy-wise, which seems to be a yearly routine for Facebook now. The fact that they disappear after one day gives a Snapchat-esque feel to the whole thing.

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The New Facebook Groups Explained

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Tweet When it comes to Facebook’s different functions and products, the confusion is many times never ending for the general users. Events: Each of the groups can make their own events, which will be visible to others according to the privacy settings of the group. Similar Posts: Facebook Reveals New Changes On Platform.

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Facebook Upgrades Security

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Tweet Facebook’s security and privacy issues have been a much-debated topic for long. Now, Facebook adds the ability to use the platform through a HTTPS connection that should increase security for users. You may also have seen the viral status updates explaining how to set your profile to use Facebook with HTTPS support.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

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Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. Facebook has of course also taken privacy into consideration.

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China: The State of Social Media

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As you may know, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and to some degree Google are blocked in China. Traditional web-based social networks in China are in many ways copies of Facebook. In the case of Renren, it’s a shameless copy of Facebook, even down to the main colors used. Fragmentation. How Social Media Reflects Human Behaviour.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

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Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. Facebook has of course also taken privacy into consideration.