In its infancy, Facebook login was restricted to those with a Harvard email address. Later, membership was extended to other Ivy League schools, and eventually colleges and high schools around the world. It wasn’t until 2006 that Facebook login was available to anyone over the age of 13 — a limitation that also may change in the near future.
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Continuing its efforts to educate its users about its privacy and security settings, some users who click on privacy settings in the pull-down menu that appears in the top-right-hand corner of every Facebook page are seeing another page labeled “where to find,” which highlights changes to the social network’s security settings.
In an effort to clear the air on what Instant Personalization means, Facebook recently launched a page to explain how it works around the web and how you can control what others see.
Social reading and publishing site Scribd is the latest service to adopt Facebook’s Instant Personalization.
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Film review website Rotten Tomatoes has integrated Facebook’s Instant Personalization so that you can get movie recommendations from your friends.
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Following the controversy surrounding Facebook’s instant personalization program, Pandora made a subtle change yesterday which drives users to opt-out of the program and make their profile information private. The new privacy settings also let Facebook users decide “whether or not [they'd] like to import [their] information from Facebook to Pandora”. The main change here is that Pandora is proactively notifying users about their privacy settings.
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While Facebook’s new “Instant Personalization” program has drawn the attention of privacy advocates, Facebook users, and the press, the rate at which users are opting out of Facebook’s “Instant Personalization” program is decreasing. Over the past couple months, we’ve been writing about users who are sharing how to opt-out of instant personalization. At one point it looked like multiple users were posting how opt-out every second. Now it’s one or two users an hour.
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Based on a number of conversations we’ve had with various sources over the past few days, it appears as though Facebook’s highly controversial “Instant Personalization” program will remain opt-out following the upcoming privacy overhaul. It’s ironic because it violates one of the core privacy principles that Mark Zuckerberg highlighted last night in his Washington Post article.
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It’s pretty outrageous to watch Facebook defend something which is obviously unethical. I’m talking about the company’s “Instant Personalization” program which the company forces users into, whether they like it or not. Despite the ongoing public criticism about the service, and a number of other products, Facebook is standing strong, arguing that users “love” what Facebook is doing.
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Over the past week we’ve been receiving numerous inquiries from users looking for further details about how to opt-out of Facebook’s new “Instant Personalization” service. We’ve been covering the controversy surrounding the new Instant Personalization service over the past week, and while it’s unknown whether or not Facebook will kill the service, users want to know how to protect themselves as they navigate the web.
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