Friday, September 08, 2006

Facebook | Facebook Blunder

Facebook | Facebook Blunder

Many Facebook users were accosted by a new social feed "feature" this week on their profile. Users were up in arms about the "overwhelming and cluttered" change. Mark
Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, announced the addition of privacy controls to limit what content goes into the news feeds. Zuckerberg has started a new Facebook group entitled Free Flow of Information on the Internet to discuss how and why people should be able to share information with others over the Internet.

Facebook is a social network originally designed for college students to connect and share information. Since then high schools and workplaces have been allowed to join. Unlike Myspace browsing others profiles are limited to your friends and your local network (i.e. school or @domain.edu). Facebook has a simple and clean Web 2.0 interface with limited advertising which has helped it gain great success.

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