According to the people at addtoany, the volume of information being shared around the web through Facebook has increased dramatically over the past year. Specifically, Facebook now accounts for 24 percent of all items being shared in contrast to email which now accounts for 11.1 percent. Not surprisingly, Twitter now accounts for 10.8 percent of all items shared. I reached out to the company to find out what sampling size the company has.
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As if the phishy advertising links weren’t bad enough, Facebook seems to have had another issue on its hands this week. When Facebook users received an email from Facebook admin telling them they would need to reset their email preferences, red flags went off, reports InternetNews. The email read as follows:
“Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”
Looks suspect? Typically messages such as these are phisy emails from spammers looking for a way to steal your confidential information. And for a message like this to come from Facebook, which cares so much about user privacy and protection,the message appeared all the more questionable.
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One of the biggest problems with Facebook’s platform for developers is the limits placed on them. Whether it’s a limit on the number of invites they can send, a limit on the types of emails they can send users, there are many restrictions. Today one of those restrictions have been loosened and developers can “now incorporate a number of HTML tags so” they can format messages as they wish.
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