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Facebook has made yet another change that will affect how private your Facebook page is. A new change will allow anyone who uses Facebook to find your page simply by typing your name into the Facebook search bar. Now is a good time to manually change the privacy settings on your posts. Michael Richter, Chief Privacy Officer for Facebook posted
Here we go again! Facebook wants to take the photos and content that you post and use them in advertisements. You won't be able to opt-out of this new change. Your image might appear in an ad for a product that you “liked” - or in an ad for a product you have never used or that you dislike. Facebook
The Facebook Gift Store made its appearance about a year ago. The purpose was to enable Facebook to generate some revenue that wasn't primarily based on ads. I think the idea was that people would notice the reminders that Facebook generates to inform people that a friend's birthday is coming up. Of course, they would want to send that person
Facebook opened up their embedded post option to everyone today. Now, you can take a post, grab the embed code and insert into a blog like Wordpress. Developers can now add this to their apps. They released a new version of the Facebook plugin for WordPress that supports Embedded Posts. Otherwise, you can copy code to bring an embedded post into your article.
Facebook is doing something new that might make it easier for you to find the things that you actually do want to read in your News Feed. They have made changes to the algorithm that will allow it to respond to “signals from you”. Ideally, this will result in you seeing more engaging and interesting things at the top of
Facebook added hashtags as a new feature a little more than a month ago. How is that working out for them? Not quite as well as they hoped it would. Somehow, this does not surprise me. It seems that the idea was that adding hashtags would allow Facebook users to add some context to their posts. It would also allow
Facebook made an announcement on the Facebook Security page that a bug has affected approximately 6 million Facebook users. This bug allowed user's email and/or phone number to be accessed by people who “either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them”. From the Facebook post: We've concluded that approximately 6 million Facebook users had email