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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. I have found this chart that illustrates Facebook’s evolution of privacy from the early days in 2005 up until recently.

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China: The State of Social Media

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Web-based social networks. Traditional web-based social networks in China are in many ways copies of Facebook. However, the networks are changed to better fit the Chinese user and market in several ways. Many users of social networks in China have a different attitude towards privacy than in the West.

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The Story of The World's Most Powerful Social Network – Facebook

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It all happened in less than 12 months, so the intensity in the story speaks for itself.

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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

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We’ve taken a look at some of the leading social platforms and emerging new trends in the land of the rising sun. Japan’s social status quo. Japan is one of the few countries that managed to actually keep its local social networks more popular than the media giant Facebook.

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2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media

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Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram triggered an outrage against the world’s biggest social network when Instagram during December made two announcements. The first drastic announcement was that Instagram completely turned off Twitter integration – no more synchronisation or sharing. A picture is worth a thousand words….

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In Time of Social Media Crisis – How Do You Respond?

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To make a long story short – Nestlé handled things very wrong when they didn’t realize how important every customer’s opinion is and that they actually are communicators on the worlds largest social network. Their page is still facing hard criticism.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

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Facebook has of course also taken privacy into consideration. When you check in you can also tag the friends who are with you or post an update to go with it. Then you can see all the people who are checked in at the same place as you. So you are able to control what you want to share or you can delete your checkins.