If you’re anything like me and most of my friends and family on Facebook, the dizzying changes over the past year by Mark Zuckerberg and company have left you in a love/hate relationship with Facebook. On the personal side, I have friends and family in New York that I see once a year and love to see photos of my godchildren growing, seeing them play or enjoy the holidays or hearing that my nephew’s band just recorded their album. I’ve connected with relatives I never met and am back in touch with my classmates from elementary school – shout out to P.S. 179!!
On the business side, I enjoy connecting with other small business owners and providing great articles and information I know they need. I have found invaluable resources that have helped me create the business I have today and met some great people online. On the flip side, at times I feel like I can hardly keep up with the changes. My beef: Facebook changes happen without notice, like they’re trying to sneak something by you.
I found two articles worth sharing:
Facebook Finally Fixed It’s Terrible Privacy Policy
Balloons. Streamers. Champagne for everyone. It’s about time!!
My favorite part of this article: “From now on, all privacy changes have to be opt-in for users, instead of Facebook changing it for you.” I mean the Feds had to get involved??? Come on, Facebook. You couldn’t come up with this by yourself? For the rest of article, read here.
Our Commitment To The Facebook Community
Mark Zuckerberg, the beloved founder of Facebook responded by writing an article on The Facebook Blog. Sounds more like justification, but I think it should be an apology. ” . . . In the last 18 months alone, we’ve announced more than 20 new tools and resources designed to give you more control over your Facebook experience. Some of the things these include are:
• An easier way to select your audience when making a new post • Inline privacy controls on all your existing posts • The ability to review tags made by others before they appear on your profile • Friend lists that are easier to create and that maintain themselves automatically • A new groups product for sharing with smaller sets of people • A tool to view your profile as someone else would see it • Tools to ensure your information stays secure like double login approval • Mobile versions of your privacy controls • An easy way to download all your Facebook data • A new apps dashboard to control what your apps can access • A new app permission dialog that gives you clear control over what an app can do anytime you add one • Many more privacy education resources . . . “Thank you for reminding us that of the more than 20 tools we were notified in advance of practically none of them. To read the rest of what I believe should be an apology, check it out here.
Do you have a love/hate relationship with Facebook? Please share what you love (great moments) and hate (no need for me to elaborate) in the comment section below:
I’m off to Facebook to see what my friends are up to.
