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Is there a gender issue with Facebook Places?

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I’ll do anything for BlogHer. Even try out Facebook Places. I resisted Foursquare and Gowalla and other similar services. But when BlogHer asked me to report on Facebook Places, I couldn’t say no. First, I’ll explain how to use it. Then I’ll describe how reactions to it have split along gender lines. Finally, I’ll tell [...]

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Facebook’s New Privacy Settings: This is simple?

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Last week Facebook responded to the screams of anger over their privacy policies. On the Facebook blog, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new rules. Supposedly, the steps Facebook is taking will make monitoring your privacy settings simpler. Today we’re starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler. We’ve [...]

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Useful links: Facebook privacy, speed-listen

Saturday, May 15, 2010

A blog post that makes clear the importance of long content comes to us from danah boyd, who knows a thing or two about privacy. danah makes some powerful points about what is happening with privacy on Facebook. Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant). There are so many quotable points in the post. I will [...]

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