Comments on: Analysis: Facebook’s New Privacy Settings a Major (and Risky) Step Toward Openness

By: donina04

donina04 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:46:56 +0000

i was set to private though i didnt changed anything on my settings. it’s weird. i’ve read some forums and saw people who got the same problem, they said its a bug… so how can I fix it???help please:(

By: G

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:22:18 +0000

I like Facebook privacy settings. I can control what each person sees on my profile. It is great. I am a teen writer at RadicalParenting.com which is a parenting blog from the kid’s perspective there are 60 teen and tween writers run by teen author, Vanessa Van Petten. We just posted a video of “How to set Privacy Settings in Social Networks” here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weM8rcAhAw8

and would love for you to check it out and tell us what you think or repost if you like it,

Cheers, thanks for checking it out!

G and the Teen Team
http://radicalparenting.com

By: Andrei Neculau

Andrei Neculau — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:03:08 +0000

This feature has now disappeared from my account!

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By: Sky McElroy

Sky McElroy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:35:49 +0000

It’s not a paradigm shift in Facebook sharing information, unless Facebook makes the default “Everyone.”

The paradigm shift would be if Facebook fundamentally made the default option Everyone, and didn’t allow that Default to be changed. Then people who actively, and consciously, have to make the choice to just share with their network.

In that case, the purported paradigm shift would be realized and Facebook would be signaling a shift in a direction they had previously shied away from. However, if Facebook allows users to set their default share options and, by default, makes sharing only in Network, then users can decide whether or not they want to be make their information public.

Theoretically, then, it’s not a fundamental shift in the user experience. That is, if Facebook doesn’t change the way users receive their News Feeds. If Facebook is going to have User News Feeds automatically updated with information Shared from Everyone, then it will create a vastness of noise that will make it more difficult for users to filter out their friends. However, if Facebook keeps the default News Feed as Friends only and allows users to change that setting, then it’s remaining true to its Privacy and Control roots. Facebook would then be making Sharing easier without fundamentally shifting the user experience for those who prefer Facebook as is.

By: Thomas Trumble

Thomas Trumble — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:33:42 +0000

I completely agree that this change is the biggest run at Twitter that Facebook has made with their publisher tool. See my post on the same subject. http://ttrumble.com/facebooks-publisher-privacy-settings-the-game-changer-against-twitter/

The next step will be to ensure that the ability to set the privacy for individual posts via third party applications. With the majority of Twitter posts not coming from Twitter.com this is functionality that will be needed for Twitter users to make the complete jump to Facebook for their updates.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:37:01 +0000

the publisher privacy default will be whatever your profile privacy setting is at the moment. so if you’ve set your profile to everyone, then that will be the default. if you’ve set it to friends only, then the default will be just friends.