Want to see photos that Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, has been tagged in? Want to see his latest status updates? Now you can. The media has been obsessed with it all day, some of which have even suggested that Mark Zuckerberg must not understand the new privacy settings. They would be wrong as Zuckerberg’s new privacy settings are a statement about how people are becoming more public with their profile information.
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Update: We’ve posted an article on how to fix most of the problems which you can find here.
In a particularly strange move, it appears that Facebook has killed off what was previously a “News Feed” story settings page. The feature enabled users to pre-select those actions that they made on Facebook which would automatically generate feed stories. For example, if you changed your relationship status, a news story would automatically be generated, stating that your relationship status had changed. It was an emphasis of our original Facebook privacy guide, and it’s behind the “Post-Breakup Facebook Effect” which we wrote about earlier this week.
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Earlier this morning we covered the Facebook Privacy call live. Below I’ve embedded a copy of the video of the entire call. If you have any questions regarding the new privacy settings, feel free to post them in the comments. We will be posting a more complete overview of all the new privacy settings shortly. In the meantime, if you’d like to watch a video of the full call, I’ve included it below.
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This morning Facebook posted about the new privacy settings that are rolling out today. Included in their post was a video about how to use the new Facebook Privacy Transition Tool. I’ve embedded a copy of the new transition tool video below. It will walk you through the entire process of moving over to the new privacy settings. You should be prompted about the new privacy settings at some point today.
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The most significant implication of the new privacy settings unveiled by Facebook today is that the Facebook stream, will now have substantially more content which developers can access. The result is that Facebook could soon have more stream content than Twitter, who has a tenth of the user base which Facebook has. As Chris Cox stated on today’s privacy call, “everyone is the new default” for status updates and links.
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Back in July we covered Facebook’s new privacy settings that are supposed to begin rolling out later today. In preparation for the changes, Facebook is hosting a press call today to discuss the impending changes. We will be covering the event live as well as posting a follow-up article about all the changes with screenshots, etc. If you have any questions regarding the changes, please feel free to post them in the comments and we will try to clarify them on the follow-up article.
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Today Facebook will begin the process of rolling out the new privacy settings first announced back in July. Later today, Facebook will hold a press conference to discuss the transition to the new privacy settings which include a “Transition Tool” which will help walk users through the process. Users will be able to migrate their old settings or accept new recommendations from Facebook.
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This evening Mark Zuckerberg posted about the company surpassing the 350 million user threshold, less than one month after we reported on the company crossing the 325 million mark. It’s a substantial milestone for the company and at this rate there’s a chance that they could easily surpass 375 million by the end of the year. Regardless of the ongoing growth, more significant changes to the Facebook system lie ahead.
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Days after Facebook announced their support for the Bullyproof campaign, the head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in the U.K., Jim Gamble, is challenging Facebook on their existing child protection policies. While Facebook already has effective reporting mechanisms that have worked in the past, Gamble would (not surprisingly) like for Facebook to implement the Ceop button for protecting children.
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For a long time now there has been an issue surrounding Facebook users’ ability to permanently delete their accounts. While users were able to remove their information from the site, it wasn’t extremely clear to users how they could delete their accounts. The new clarification is a result of a complaint filed by the Canadian Privacy Commission.
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