Tag: News Feed
An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg:
"We really messed this one up. When we launched News Feed and Mini-Feed we were trying to provide you with a stream of information about your social world. Instead, we did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them. I'd like to try to correct those errors now."
We made the site so that all of our members are a part of smaller networks like schools, companies or regions, so you can only see the profiles of people who are in your networks and...
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Facebook launched a redesign yesterday which changed the layout of the homepage and introduced a few new features. The users, mostly undergraduate students around the country, find the "News Feed" feature (shown to the right) an invasion of their privacy and "basically creepy." Using the "groups" feature of Facebook to rally together, one user, Ben Parr of Northwestern University, created a group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed." The group's description reads as follows:
"We want to feel just a LITTLE bit of privacy, even if...
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Facebook looks different today. They've added two features: News Feed, which appears on your homepage, and Mini-Feed, which appears in each person's profile (yes just like COmmonGate).
News Feed and Mini-Feed are a different way of looking at the news about your friends, but they do not give out any information that wasn't already visible. Your privacy settings remain the same – the people who couldn't see your info before still can't see it now.
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