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05-29-2014, 01:00 AM
Facebook Is Trying to Be Less Creepy
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For the second time in two weeks, Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has made a concerted effort to be less creepy
Exhibit A: The company's decision (http://mashable.com/2014/05/22/facebook-private-default-setting/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) last week to make the default for new users "friends" instead of public. Exhibit B: On Tuesday, Facebook began downplaying passive updates from third party apps (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/facebook-third-party-apps/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). That means there will be fewer instances of updates such as, "Todd is listening to the Starland Vocal Band on Spotify" clogging up your News Feed
See also: How to Lock Down Facebook Privacy (http://mashable.com/2013/07/09/facebook-privacy-how-to/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
As enhancements go, these are pretty mi**r — really mi**r, actually. In the first instance, Facebook could have made much bigger strides against creepiness if it made the friends setting the default for everyone and **tified them of this. Changing the setting for new users is a tacit ack**wledgment that such newbies (who are these people just signing up, anyway?) never **ticed their default settings — so Facebook was, in effect, taking advantage of their naiveté. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/28/facebook-advertising-creepy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Advertising (http://mashable.com/advertising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Privacy (http://mashable.com/category/privacy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Marketing (http://mashable.com/marketing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401309821 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401309821)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/MdvS4nDRg_E
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For the second time in two weeks, Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has made a concerted effort to be less creepy
Exhibit A: The company's decision (http://mashable.com/2014/05/22/facebook-private-default-setting/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) last week to make the default for new users "friends" instead of public. Exhibit B: On Tuesday, Facebook began downplaying passive updates from third party apps (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/facebook-third-party-apps/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). That means there will be fewer instances of updates such as, "Todd is listening to the Starland Vocal Band on Spotify" clogging up your News Feed
See also: How to Lock Down Facebook Privacy (http://mashable.com/2013/07/09/facebook-privacy-how-to/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
As enhancements go, these are pretty mi**r — really mi**r, actually. In the first instance, Facebook could have made much bigger strides against creepiness if it made the friends setting the default for everyone and **tified them of this. Changing the setting for new users is a tacit ack**wledgment that such newbies (who are these people just signing up, anyway?) never **ticed their default settings — so Facebook was, in effect, taking advantage of their naiveté. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/28/facebook-advertising-creepy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Advertising (http://mashable.com/advertising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Privacy (http://mashable.com/category/privacy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Marketing (http://mashable.com/marketing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401309821 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401309821)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/MdvS4nDRg_E