New Privacy Setting Changes by Facebook

Face book said it would roll out the new controls to share private information on social networks on Thursday to give its more than 750 million users new tools to manage who can see information about them. The company plans to move a number of privacy controls that previously required navigating to a separate page settings from users’ home pages and profile pages, next to where they see and add content.



Face book and other social networks have sometimes been criticized for design that takes users to inadvertently share information with a wider audience than they intended. Many Face book users have hundreds or thousands of friends, and some have called the company to make it easier to target smaller groups when sending information.

Chris Cox, Face book’s vice president of product development, said his company had been working on changes in the last six months, based on many years of requests from users. “It’s about making it easier to share with just anyone you want, and never be surprised by who sees anything,” he said. Users should “never be surprised by who sees something.”



Mr. Cox said that making life easier control is “crucial” on Face book’s future success, but added the changes were not taken in response to Google. “We are launching it now because it’s ready,” he said.

A Google spokesman said in a statement: “We welcome the Face book effort to give users more control over privacy, because it helps to improve the overall Web experience Google + We create a new and different approach to sharing on the Internet more As . Sharing in the real world. “

Existing users will retain their current default settings for sharing.
The first time the new Face book members share a piece of content, their standard proposal be publicly available – replace “all” attitude. If users choose an option that will be their standard in the future.

The new privacy options will begin to be rolled out across the square from Thursday 25 August.
changes of FACE BOOK:

• In line controls – each item on a user’s wall has individual privacy options, such as public, friends and custom
• Tag takedown – the ability to remove tags of self, ask the person who tagged you to remove it, or block the tagger
• Universal tagging – users can tag anyone, not just Facebook friends. Other person can choose not to accept the tagged post on their profile
• Location tagging – geographic locations can be added in all versions of Facebook, not just mobile app
• Profile view – the option to see how others view your profile is added above the news feed

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Facebook 'increases teenage drugs and alcohol abuse

It found those who used such sites daily were five times more likely to smoke tobacco as those who did not, three times as likely to drink alcohol and twice as likely to use marijuana. 

The poll of 12 to 17-year-olds Americans, conducted by Columbia University, found 70 per cent of those interviewed said they used social networking sites on a typical day, while 30 per cent did not. 

One of the main reasons for going on such sits, besides actually communicating with friends, is to keep tabs on peers by looking at their photographs. 

But the study found that pictures of teenagers "drunk, passed out, or using drugs on Facebook and other sites" were "rampant". However, parents seemed unaware that browsing such sites could increase their child's likelihood of abusing drink or drugs, with almost nine in 10 believing it did not have an effect on them.

Joseph Califano, founder of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, called on operators of Facebook and others to instigate tighter controls to block such photographs. 

He said: "The time has come for those who operate and profit from social networking sites like Facebook to deploy their technological expertise to curb such images and to deny use of their sites to children and teens who post pictures of themselves and their friends drunk, passed out or using drugs. 

"Continuing to provide the electronic vehicle for transmitting such images constitutes electronic child abuse." The survey also found that one in five teenagers claimed to have been bullied online.

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Facebook Messenger

Facebook has just launched a new free standalone mobile group messaging app for iPhone and Android called Facebook Messenger. It allows users to conduct one-on-one or group conversations, send photos, and privately share their location. Messages are delivered via push notifications to those with the app, and SMS, Facebook Chat, or Facebook Messages to those without it. 

The app heavily incorporates functionality and design from group messaging app Beluga, which Facebook acquired in March, and whose founders headed development. Facebook Messenger should help users coordinate meetups and find each other, increase usage of Facebook’s direct communication channels, and compete with GroupMe and Fast Society. 

This is the first standalone app from the social network, which otherwise aggregates all its functionality into its primary “Facebook for…” native apps. This and leaked information about a standalone photo sharing app indicate that Facebook has recognized the demand for more lightweight, streamlined, specialized mobile apps. Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. 

And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality. On Tuesday, Facebook is launching a mobile app for iPhone and Android that allows users to send and receive real-time messages. Dubbed Facebook Messenger, it’s the first standalone app to be launched by the company aside from the general purpose apps Facebook has for various mobile devices. 

The development of the Facebook Messenger app has been headed up by the founding team of Beluga, a group text messaging service acquired by Facebook in March. Beluga’s founders Ben Davenport, Lucy Zhang and Jonathan Perlow told me in an interview Tuesday morning that they have been working on Facebook Messenger essentially since they joined the company after the Beluga deal, with help from the entire existing Facebook Messaging team. 

 It was only a few hours ago that we got wind of Facebook’s release of a standalone messaging product called Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android. The app focuses on doing messages and only messages, with the intention of being incredibly convenient instead of robust. If there’s one missing feature, though, it’s video chat integration. Given Facebook’s recent moves with Skype to integrate video chat on the Facebook site, it would only seem to make sense that you could do video messaging and chat in the Facebook apps, too. Apparently, that’s exactly the plan. 

Or at least it’s part of the plan. According to what we’re seeing over at 9to5 Mac, Facebook has tucked away some clues that point toward The integrated messaging platform Facebook launched in November unified Chat, Messages, mobile push notifications, and email, allowing users to have a seamless conversation regardless of what interface the participants were using. Other group messaging apps still worked better though, prompting Facebook to acquire Beluga, which already had a strong Facebook integration. Facebook Messenger goes one step further, allowing users to add contacts from their phone who they aren’t Facebook friends with to a conversation via SMS. 

While other group messaging apps, including Beluga, pay third-party cloud communication service Twilio to convert API calls into SMS, Facebook has built its own in-house SMS syndication system. The app works like this: After downloading the app to your mobile phone, you sign in using your Facebook credentials. The app is essentially an extension of Facebook messages, so all of your texts, chats, emails and message history are all within one place — synced across mobile and web. 

The app can be used to send messages to groups or individuals, and messages can include location information and attachments such as photos. To me, the coolest part of the app is that it can deliver messages through app notifications and SMS texts, so you can communicate with your friends whether they have the Messenger app or not. Facebook Messenger will be available in the US and Canada starting Tuesday, and will roll out in other regions “shortly,” Davenport said.

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Facebook CEO Goes Coy On Google+

Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg, it seems that has suddenly gone shy Google +, Google's latest challenge to the world's No. Facebook.Asutaja. A social networking site Facebook recently hit headlines are the most popular party with Google +.

According to web reports, Zuckerberg probably changed your privacy settings so that they can not show more than many people follow him, or how many people he has placed a new social networking circles. + Google Circles are groups of friends.

By the way, it is not the only high-profile corporate honcho has decided to go private with Google +. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin also said seems to have hit the privacy button, hides the many friends and supporters as they are with Google +.

Trio has since dropped 100 ranking of the most popular people in a social network.

Unofficial top-100 list compiled by a team of programmers, an Amsterdam-based website called Google + Statistics. The same group has also said that the popularity of Twitter users to follow through Twitter Counter.

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