The latest look at what types of content on Facebook draw the most likes turned up results that were completely inconclusive.
Audience research and targeting company Crowd Science conducted a study to determine what types of content Facebook users like, and why, and three types of content finished in a dead heat at 16 percent apiece: wall posts, pictures, and comments.
Facebook took a year to develop the advanced profile currently called timeline, but I see it as part of a much longer evolution — dating back to Vannevar Bush’s Memex vision from the 1950s.
The Memex was a hypothetical machine that would record everything; now Facebook stands to be the first realized version of the Memex, recording everything (well almost) and allowing us near-instant recall of the minutest details of our lives—or at least the ones we posted on Facebook.
The number of places where you can get tagged on Facebook continues to grow, but you can give yourself the right to approve all tags before they can appear on the site — and the ability to do this has gotten more refined than ever.
There are actually five different options you can enable that together limit whether anyone’s effort to tag you can go live on the site.
A class-action lawsuit alleges that Facebook violated federal wiretap statutes by tracking people’s Internet browser history even when they are not logged in.
The use of cookies, a tracking script left in your history when you visit a site, isn’t uncommon in the web world, but from a legal standpoint, they aren’t supposed to track your history once you leave a website. But that’s what Facebook’s trackers appear to be doing.
Timeline and the open graph call for a review of one’s privacy settings, although not to the extent that you lose sleep or close your Facebook account.
So far, open graph applications have been allowing users to opt out of publishing information to Facebook news feeds, and the timeline will give users a five-day period to choose what they want to show before the new profile publishes.
Which site offers more privacy, Facebook or Google Plus? A pretty good comparison between the two appears in an infographic below.
Peer One Hosting created the infographic that illustrates how neither site outdoes the other in the way of privacy.
Facebook recently unveiled the most dramatic updates to its privacy settings in a year. Out of all of them, there’s one new feature that you really must turn on as soon as it becomes available to you: profile review.
Facebook is unveiling a raft of improvements for sharing posts, photos, tags and places with exactly the people a user wants to see the content.
The changes attempt to make the privacy settings more accessible and user friendly.
Facebook wants to be a part of everything we do on the Web. The company’s philosophy is that the Internet is more fun when it’s shared. In some ways social networks are like parties that never end. The problem is, we can’t be sure who else Facebook has invited to the party, and whether these unknown guests can be trusted.
This week there was a minor dust-up about our friends’ phone numbers being exposed to strangers. On Wednesday the official Facebook page explained that the feature has been in place for some time and does not publish the numbers. As with the contacts in your phone, only you can view the numbers, according to the post.
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