Mark Zuckerberg Promise Privacy Protect for the Users

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that social networking site had made a mistake in protecting the confidentiality of its users and promised to immediately deal with it. Zuckerberg claimed responsibility for that mistake, through the exchange of electronic mail with the famous technology blogger Robert Scoble, who then disseminated through the permission of Zuckerberg’s personal page.

“I want to make sure that when this issue is resolved,” the sound of a message refers to Zuckerberg. “I know we have done a number of negligence, but ultimately I hope the service becomes more perfect, and people understand that our intentions are good, and we’re responding to feedback from the people we serve.”

Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old right on May 14 and said, Facebook will directly speak to the public this week regarding the modification of user privacy regulations. “We hold all enter and try to filter it down to the important things we wanted to continue to improve,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Saturday declared last week Facebook plans to simplify the control of the confidentiality of its users to ward off criticism over the years. Facebook considers users liked the new programs created in the “hotspot” The Internet is based in California but would like to facilitate the personal information that can be shared, via third party applications or pages. Features that were introduced last month including the ability of partners in the pages of data connected with Facebook, a move which will mean more and expand the social networking presence on the Internet. Facebook has been criticized exhausted by its users in the U.S., consumer protection groups, U.S. legislators and the European Union, concerning the new features mengumbar accused of confidentiality more than 400 million users.

Facebook Will Change the privacy options on Facebook

After experiencing pressure from various parties, eventually Facebook privacy options intended to simplify the user. In this interview with Kojo Nnamdi Show, public radio, Facebook’s chief of Public Policy, Tim Sparapani, said that his company was working on simplification of privacy options, such as what is demanded by many users so far.

“We heard from users that privacy option that we make today are too complex. I think we’ll pass them,” said Sparapani as quoted from the Wired site. “We will provide the option for users who want the privacy. I think we’ll be able to see it in the next few weeks,” said Sparapani.

Lately, Facebook was accused of restricting their users to have full control over their personal data in the most popular social networking site that. Facebook privacy statement grown increasingly complicated. In fact, now Facebook has a privacy statement that is longer than the United States Constitution. To truly be able to control the privacy of Facebook users have to perform 50 times with 170 privacy setting options offered.

To adjust the image alone, each with a photo album in Facebook should be arranged one by one whether to be published to everyone, only to friends, or to certain people only. Imagine if someone has hundreds of photos or dozens of album that should be checked one by one. Facebook’s privacy policy changes introduced since the end of December 2009 it made a lot of users do not really understand or care about their privacy.

Recent research from Consumer Reports said, 23 percent of Facebook users do not know the Facebook privacy controls offered, or claimed to not want used. but, when it also changed the Facebook privacy settings previously set by default as’ private ‘, becomes the default as’ public ‘. Therefore, a new Facebook user profile, will automatically be seen by everyone. Even with the new Open Graph API, Facebook distribute Facebook user information to third-party service sites such as Yelp, Microsoft Docs.com, and Pandora.

As quoted by The New York Times, analysts suspect Facebook is looking for a gap to seek profits from the advertisers. Therefore, more information from users that are displayed on their Facebook, Facebook will be more able to avoid a first ads that are relevant to the content information.

Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information

SAN FRANCISCO Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information.The call for simpler privacy controls came in a letter that the senators plan to send Tuesday to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Associated Press obtained a draft of the letter signed by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo; Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska; and Sen. Al Franken, D.-Minn.It marks the second time in the past three days that Schumer has expressed his misgivings about a series of changes that Facebook announced last week. The new features are designed to unlock more of the data that the online hangout has accumulated about people during its six-year history.

Schumer sent a letter Sunday to the Federal Trade Commission calling for regulators to draw up clearer privacy guidelines for Facebook and other Internet social networks to follow.The political pressure threatens to deter Facebook’s efforts to put its stamp on more websites, a goal that could yield more moneymaking opportunities for the privately held company.

Facebook’s expansion “raises new concerns for users who want to maintain control over their information,” the senators wrote in their preliminary draft.In a statement late Monday, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said the company wants to meet with Schumer to explain its commitment to privacy.

“We’ve developed powerful tools to give our users control over what information they want to share, when they want to share it and with whom,” Noyes said.Among other things, Facebook is plugging into other websites so people can communicate their interests with their online entourages. Facebook also tweaked its own website to create more pages where people’s biographical information could be exposed to a wider audience.

Before personal information can be shared with other websites, the senators want Facebook to seek users’ explicit consent, a process known as “opting in.” Facebook currently can share some personal information with websites unless individual users opt out by telling the company they don’t want those details to be passed along.The senators also object to Facebook’s decision to allow other businesses store users’ data for more than 24 hours.

Zuckerberg, who turns 26 next month, says he just wants to build more online avenues for people to connect with their friends and family. Some of his previous efforts have been detoured by privacy concerns, most notably in 2007 when Facebook users revolted against notification tool, called Beacon, that broadcast their activities on dozens of websites.Facebook responded to that rebellion by giving people more control over Beacon before scrapping the program completely. (AP)

Facebook says it is "aggressively disabling" applications that claim to allow users to see who is viewing their profile

Facebook says it is “aggressively disabling” applications that claim to allow users to see who is viewing their profile. It has also confirmed that the programmes do not work and won’t allow access to private information. Several variants of the so-called “stalker apps” have appeared on Facebook in recent days.

Unwitting users have helped spread the rogue software by attempting to install it. Among the applications that have now disappeared from the site are “Stalker Check”, and “Who has visited my profile”. They claim to show users who, among their friends, is regularly visiting their page. In a statement, Facebook said: “Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo. They can’t.”

Our philosophy is that having an open system anyone can participate in is generally better Most of the stalker apps appear to have been created to generate cash for their designers. Facebook’s Head of European Policy, Richard Allan, said: “Applications try to attract users in and try to get people to install them. “Once a large number of users have installed that application, they can try to offer services like advertising that will make money.” However, there remains the potential for victims to be directed to sites containing viruses and other malicious software.

It has, once again, raised the question of Facebook introducing an application vetting process, along the lines of Apple’s App Store system. Speaking to Newsbeat in March 2009, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea. He said: “There will occasionally be some applications that people don’t like. “Our philosophy is that having an open system anyone can participate in is generally better.”

facebook using paypal for the payment method

Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic partnership. With such cooperation, PayPal will become a key service in the field of advertising and Facebook development system. As part of the relationship, advertisers from around the world will be able to use PayPal to pay through Facebook Ads Facebook’s advertising tools. For entrepreneurs in the region where the payment process can be a difficult and expensive, the availability of payment options through PayPal makes it easy for advertisers. Especially small-scale international companies that do business on Facebook.

As an illustration only, this time Facebook has reached 400 million people with 70 per cent are users who live outside the United States. PayPal will also be a payment option for Facebook Credits, which is currently tested in several games and applications for Facebook. The purpose of Credits Facebook is allowing users to quickly they can buy virtual goods on Facebook. Including items from Facebook Gift Shop.

“We want to provide fast and reliable way to make payments to people who use Facebook as well as advertisers and application developers,” said Dan Levy, Director of Payment Operations Facebook, in his statement, February 19, 2010. “With the growth of our business, offers a variety of payment methods become increasingly important for advertisers who want to buy Facebook Ads,” said Levy. “Cooperation with PayPal, the world’s major players in the field of online payment allows all of this,” he said.

Simply, Levy said, the business is in the field of PayPal payment. “We allow travelers to send and receive money online in 24 currencies in 190 countries around the world,” said Osama Bedier, Vice President of Emerging Technology Platform and PayPal. “We have become part of the Facebook developer ecosystem,” Bedier said. “Now we are delighted to expand our partnership with Facebook directly related to helping advertisers grow their businesses and application developers,” he said.

pay for facebook ???!!! will you ???!!!

Facebook is the new king of social networking. But the site is stuck with an old business model that prevents it from cashing in on the increasing affluence of its users and the monopoly it has over their attention. Simply put, Facebook should charge.A recent study by Nielsen Claritas indicates that the top third of lifestyle segments measured by the researcher relative to income were 25% more likely to use Facebook than the bottom third. Meanwhile, less-wealthy segments were 37% more likely to use MySpace.MySpace popularized the concept of online social networking, and had relative success handing out free accounts and plastering them with ads. But this model does not appear to be sustainable; the unit of News Corp. which contains MySpace lost $363 million in the year ending June 30, and a rotating executive team is evidence that the business is attempting a turnaround. The youth and lack of spending power amongst its users is at least partly to blame for MySpace’s decline — so too is the downturn in online ad spending.

As fast-growing Facebook closes in on MySpace in the U.S. in terms of unique visitors later this year, it’s burning through millions of dollars a month (some claim it’s as high as $20 million), with no magic levers to reverse the trend in the short term.In November 2007, when Facebook took a $240 million stake from Microsoft, the investment was at a $15 billion valuation. Now it’s down to $4 billion and probably less. As Caroline McCarthy reported a few days ago, rumor has it that “one potential investor submitted a term sheet for a valuation in the neighborhood of $2 billion.”As Facebook works its way toward a probable IPO, the big question is: how can it show it can make money? Well, one way–and I’m not the first to suggest it–would be to charge a nominal monthly fee. With that in mind, I ask a simple question: how much would you be willing to pay to use Facebook per month?A lot of people I ask say they’d pay $1 a month–or, preferably, a yearly fee of $10 if paid in one shot. But some say they have Facebook fatigue and would rather quit than pay a dime.

An international love affair with Facebook is also a culprit. Not only has the site — started in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 — won over many younger users of MySpace, it’s introduced social networking to people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and older. As the Nielsen Claritas study hints, these users have jobs and bank accounts, and might be willing to shell out a few bucks a month for what is becoming an increasingly valuable communication tool in their lives.Another recent report from Nielsen says that 17% of the time people spend surfing the Internet is devoted to social sites, up 6% from a year earlier. No doubt, the quick and addictive status updates posted daily by users of Facebook and Twitter have something to do with the increase.Who knows? Social networking could prove to be an even more valuable business than news, an industry that’s giving serious consideration to charging premium subscriptions for online access. One difference working in Facebook’s advantage: many consumers have been getting online news for free for the past decade, and have grown accustomed to it. Social networking is relatively new.Facebook has shot down the idea of charging all of its members (the company’s COO Sheryl Sandberg in April said, “We are not planning on charging a basic fee for our basic services”). But the site may have plans to put a price tag on services, such as offering to print the millions of photos people upload to the site. It could also charge a nominal fee, like $1 per month, to let members avoid ads.



Facebook have gives change for users more privacy controls

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NEW YORK  Facebook is giving users better control over who sees information on their personal pages.The online social network is launching new privacy settings Wednesday that are designed to simplify the cumbersome controls that have confounded many users.

Users will be able to select a privacy setting for each piece of content, such as photos or updates, that they share on the site. The choices are “friends” only, “friends of friends” or “everyone.”

All users will be asked to review their settings.The site is also getting rid of its geographic networks, because many of them – take “New York” or “Australia” – have gotten too big.