Word: facebooks
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...back to the question: How will users respond to the new privacy rules? Will they grow comfortable with sharing photos and posts with the whole of the World Wide Web? Or will Facebook become a two-tiered site, with one set of information available only to your friends and a Twitter-like feature, visible to everybody, tacked...
...proposed privacy rules will bring to the fore the abiding online tensions between the need for privacy and the mania for rapid dissemination of information. And how Facebook and its users choose to resolve these issues today will have important implications for a generation whose every move has been catalogued on a social networking site since middle school graduation...
...it’s no secret that Facebook’s real motive, and for many months its overriding concern, is keeping up with Twitter. Although Facebook has 200 million users to Twitter’s 25 million (that doesn’t include all the new registrations that undoubtedly resulted in June following the Iranian elections), the consensus is that the future of social networking lies in microblogging: short up-to-the-second messages broadcast to your friends and followers. The key part of this equation—and what equipped Twitter to be such a powerful means...
...Facebook has a history of adding features that face large initial resistance, but come to be regarded by users as indispensable. College students were uneasy about professional networks—and adults—gaining access to Facebook after its early users began graduating from college, and were mildly indignant when the network was opened up to high school students. But users have long since come to terms with Facebook’s openness. The introduction of the news feed—the stream of information that updates you on recent changes and additions to your friends’ profiles?...
...most important exception to this dynamic occurred when Facebook rewrote its terms of service in February, effectively laying claim to all the information users publish to their profiles on the premise that, “We publish it, ergo we can do what we want with it.” Users rebelled and Facebook backtracked, reinstituting its abandoned terms of service in which control over content resided with users...