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An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online. To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information...
New Tools to Control Your Experience
blog.facebook.com — Today, we're launching new tools to give you even greater control over the information you share. Mark... Zuckerberg, our founder and CEO, talked about these changes in his post last week... (more) New Tools to Control Your Experience
Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
eff.org — Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out... a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing ... (more) Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and ...
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Your Facebook is about to change ... again.
SEO and Tech Daily — ... Late last night, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg blogged about the upcoming changes. The news traveled like lightning across the Internet.  I even re-tweeted it .... because it's significant. In these much different (and much faster) times, in less than 10 minutes, Zuckerberg's post was No. 1 on the Technology aggregator TechMeMe and as of this writing, it still is. If you talk to the average Facebook user (I'm not sure exactly what that is but you should be able to find one ...).  Ask them if they've read the 'Terms of ...

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Around the Net In Online Marketing: Facebook Gets Out Of Town
MediaPost | Online Media News — In a move sure to rile some members of the massive social network -- now 350 million strong -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced some key service changes related to privacy and information sharing. In short, the result is no more regional networks, but more control over who sees uploaded content. "For those who have been following Facebook closely, the announcement doesn't deliver any new information, it only confirms some previously discussed plans," ...

Facebook To Roll Out New Privacy Controls To Its 350 Million Users, Kills Regional Networks – 407
Online Marketing Connect — ... has just written an open letter to Facebook users regarding a privacy overhaul that is due to hit the site in the next few weeks. Soon, users will be able to selectively choose, on a per-post basis, who can see the content they post to the site. Facebook is also going to remove regional networks entirely, largely because some of those networks (like China) consist of millions of users, which makes them useless from a privacy standpoint. If these changes sound familiar, it’s because Facebook actually announced them way back in ...

Facebook rolling out more changes
Online Marketing Connect — ... and it looks like they will be rolling out yet another homepage redesign. And this one looks like it will include some major changes. I’m sure it will be not well received by the masses and it looks like Facebook is trying to prepare for that with an open letter from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that was posted to Facebook late yesterday on some upcoming privacy changes. Check out ...

The New Face Of Facebook – 73
Online Marketing Connect — ... From issues of privacy and terms of service, to figuring out how to make advertising work and other monetization strategies, Facebook is not utopia. It has been challenged, and will continue to be challenged. What community with over 300 million active users doesn’t have its kinks? (update: today, Facebook announced that they have over 350 million users, meaning if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world). According to Facebook statistics, more than eight billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day, and the average user has 130 ...

Facebook: Ready for privacy or profits
ReveNews — What exactly does Facebook have up its sleeve? If you have been on the social media site lately you have surely noticed founder Mark Zuckerberg’s open letter to the members of Facebook about the forthcoming removal of regional networks from the site and plans to implement changes to their privacy policies. Here’s the full text of Zuckerberg’s post: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=190423927130 Once changes are made to how a user sets up their Facebook privacy settings we will have a better picture of Facebook’s intentions in ...

Privacy Measures Ramp Up As New Regs Loom
MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing — ... Polonetsky, director of the forum. The group has yet to settle on a particular logo but has nixed using a "T" for targeting or an eyeball, the Journal said. Private Sector Privacy Policies Companies - particularly those whose business models are based online - are also tweaking policies. Facebook, which has already been focusing on this issue at the behest of the Canadian regulatory authorities, plans to eliminate "regional networks," or groupings of people based on where they live, wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his company's blog. Such communities - for a school, or ...

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