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May 4, 2010

Facebook Users: Your Face Is Now on the Washington Post Website

A friend just alerted me to the fact that if you go to the Washington Post website, you'll see a new module in their sidebar that displays your friends' status updates (with profile pics).


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Not Liking All This Facebook Liking Stuff

Okay, I'll be the first to admit I wasn't a big fan of the term "fan page" to describe Facebook's pages for businesses and other branded entities. But at least the invitation to "Become a fan!" worked pretty well as a simple call to action. Now what are we page admins supposed to say? "Please [...]

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How To Stop Facebook’s Latest Attacks on Your Privacy

Yes, Facebook is at it again. Now they're making us have to opt out of sharing information with certain third-party websites. They call it "Instant Personalization." I call BS.

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Bug Alert: Removing Image from Who-Viewed-Profile Apps on Facebook

My previous post, Beware of "Who Viewed My Profile" Apps on Facebook, received, by far, the most traffic I've ever received in a single day on this blog. Unfortunately, there's a new problem associated with the original one.

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Beware of "Who Viewed My Profile" Apps on Facebook

There seems to have been a rash of incidents on Facebook over the last couple of days where people are getting notifications that they have viewed one of their friend's profiles or that one of their friends has viewed theirs--even when neither of these things has happened in recent memory.

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Is Facebook Allowing Multiple Accounts Now?

In a post last year about setting up a Facebook fan page, I said, "I should also point out that having two individual profiles is a violation of Facebook's Terms of Service as well." That no longer seems to be the case.

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Why Facebook’s Recent Privacy Changes Were Worse Than I Thought

Shortly after Facebook rolled out its new privacy settings last December, I wrote a post explaining the new controls and what I liked and didn't like about them.

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T4L Redux: Managing Your Privacy on Facebook

Privacy is an important concern when it comes to any online service, especially social media, but I think it's even more so on Facebook.

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The Good Part of Facebook’s New Privacy Settings

In yesterday's post, I talked about the new way Facebook is managing privacy controls and pointed out a couple of issues I have with their new approach. However, there's also one major improvement to the system.

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Facebook’s Latest Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Oh-So-Ugly

If you've logged into Facebook over the last few days, you were likely welcomed with this pop-up window alerting you to new changes to the site's privacy control settings. (And if you haven't been, you will be shortly.)

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Facebook Announces Upcoming Changes to Privacy Settings

Over the last couple of days, you may have seen a notice at the top of your Facebook home page, linking to an open letter from Mark Zuckerberg, the company's CEO.

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Reader Question: When Your Facebook Posts Don’t Show Up on Friends’ Home Pages

Reader Mari wrote to say that some of the things she was posting on Facebook weren't appearing on her friends' home pages. She had checked her privacy settings and all her friends had permission to see them. She also knew they hadn't hidden her, so that wasn't the problem either.

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Is Facebook Really Giving Your Pics to Third-Party Advertisers?

Yesterday a reader sent me a question about a note that's been making the rounds of the Internet re. Facebook, advertising, and users' photos.

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