Has Facebook gone too far this time? | Socialmedia.biz

• Has Facebook gone too far this time? | Socialmedia.biz

  Great review of what's happening with Facebook in terms of new applications, what they mean for marketers, and what they mean for user privacy.

  tags: Facebook, privacy, apps, like, sharing, smm, social network, ethics

  • Face­book released on April 21, which most peo­ple are only vaguely aware of:

    • Like but­ton: The Like but­ton lets users share pages from your site back to their Face­book pro­file with one click.
    • Like Box: The Like box enables users to like your Face­book Page and view its stream directly from your web­site.
    • Facepile: The Facepile plu­gin shows pro­file pic­tures of the user’s friends who have already signed up for your site.
    • Rec­om­men­da­tions: The Rec­om­men­da­tions plu­gin gives users per­son­al­ized sug­ges­tions for pages on your site they might like.
    • Login with Faces: The Login with Faces plu­gin shows pro­file pic­tures of the user’s friends who have already signed up for your site in addi­tion to a login but­ton.
    • Com­ments: The Com­ments plu­gin lets users com­ment on any piece of con­tent on your site.
    • Activ­ity Feed: The Activ­ity Feed plu­gin shows users what their friends are doing on your site through likes and com­ments.
    • Live Stream: The Live Stream plu­gin lets your users share activ­ity and com­ments in real-time as they inter­act dur­ing a live event.

    “These social plug-ins amount to a fun­da­men­tal trans­for­ma­tion in the way we com­mu­ni­cate,” he added. “The Like but­ton is a rev­o­lu­tion — it’s a dif­fer­ent mind­share. It doesn’t take much to share a Like, but its power is awesome.”

  • I’m with Chris Pir­illo, whose advice on pri­vacy is sim­ple: Stop shar­ing stuff online that you don’t want peo­ple to know about. And, like Robert Scoble did, I share much of my Face­book con­tent with the wider world, since I see Face­book — and Twit­ter, too — as a shar­ing net­work.

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