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...FRANCISCO, Calif. – Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook is going to unveil a new privacy policy aimed at getting users to share information with everyone on the Internet. It is the next move in Facebook??s campaign to unseat Twitter as the web’s preferred venue for microblogging. But in its effort to out-tweet Twitter, Facebook is asking its users to make far more of their personal information accessible to many more people. The new privacy rules thus present us with an opportunity to ask a question that has been posed...
...face of it, Twitter seems like a pretty neat idea. Twitter-ers post 140-character long “tweets” on anything they choose, a la Facebook??s status-update feature. They “follow” each other, so that a user’s followers can automatically see their posts on their main page. A commenting feature allows Twitter-ers to interact with tweets...
...vote on possible changes to the Web site’s terms of service. In a post on the company’s blog on Thursday, Facebook CEO and founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 explained that if more than 30 percent of Facebook??s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook??s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users have been given the option to either maintain Facebook??s current terms of service or to amend the document by taking...
...Things quickly got ugly. In a poll on Facebook??s website, 94 percent of voters were against the new design. Even Facebook employees apparently were dissatisfied, leading Zuckerberg to send an internal email saying that companies shouldn’t listen to their customers...
...profile to a name, bland picture and work/education info. Facebook will become for us little more than a phonebook with pictures. And, with the closing of the Facebook era, we will lose memories from our student experiences. Like it or not, many important social interactions do take place on Facebook??memories are encapsulated in tagged photos confined to the low resolution of Facebook albums, groups and events keep us connected to larger organizations, and who doesn’t love a flirtatious message chain...