never heard of rapportive? well, they’ve heard of you, and they’re sharing that info with all your gmail contacts. a “social crm” plugin for gmail provides a 360 view of people with whom you correspond. but is the full monty treatment appropriate for all your contacts? and what are people seeing about [read more...]
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some more good news for privacy-loving facebook users. facebook announced new privacy controls for content shared through applications. [read more...] most of the criticism of google’s new service has focused on the service’s auto-follow feature. I’m not all that worried about who google thinks I should be following and/or follows on my behalf. I’m more concerned about the other side of the coin – the absence of good controls over who follows [read more...] facebook has its reasons for encouraging users to share personal information. in fact, it makes sense for many people. however, a new popup is just one of the tactics the company is using to persuade users that cross the line from disingenuous to [read more...] facebook’s privacy setting changes: my series on what they mean for users. this one is about hiding your friend [read more...] the privacy setting changes facebook was talking about have come to pass. first in a series of posts on the good, the bad and the [read more...] today mashable reports that the promised “pushed” privacy efforts are underway. that is to say, rather than waiting for users to go set their own privacy levels, the site is basically putting the options in front of users, offering recommendations, [read more...] facebook acknowledges that basing privacy policy on shared networks is no longer adequate for its user and plans to (1) revamp its current settings; and (2) actively work with users to help them get the right settings for their [read more...] facebook gets a taste of its own medicine as popular photo-sharing site flickr adds tagging. guess they saw facebook “innovating” with a number of twitter features and figured good for the goose etc. [read more...] I have just finished updating two old posts about using friend lists in facebook and how to change the application’s default privacy settings so you stay in control of what other people see about you. the readers digest version: create friend lists. especially if you have a lot of friends and multiple contexts (school, family, work, etc.), friend lists can help make sure you see the posts you want/need to see. |
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