Facebook Privacy Plan
Dec 9th
Facebook have been planning to change their privacy settings for a number of weeks now, this has been long overdue. All facebook users will have seen last week a letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that let everyone know about the plans for the changes, and now the day has finally come. The privacy settings are ready for the update!
Today, facebook plans to start asking all 350 million of its users to review and update their settings as they have now make a simple interface in which you can decide on your privacy settings. This has been done to make it easier for the users. (The old ones really were quite complex) it’s also all about encouraging them to share more stuff publicly by letting them choose an “everyone” option each time they post something. Using the everyone option is a key thing for facebook, alike twitter whos posts are entirely public they encourage people to use the everyone option to help the use of real-time search, where both are now integrated in Google. Although it has many times more users than Twitter, to date, most Facebook data remains private and, hence, inaccessible to search engines. We’ll see how that starts to change after today.
Facebook Redesign Again
Dec 1st
This is the third Facebook homepage design in the last 12 months. Some users have been randomly selected and were automatically changed to this new view, we will keep you informed as to when yet a release date is set for this. Nobody knows when the new design will launch yet, i was lucky enough to have a friend that had his facebook changed over to test the new design and i have some screen shots below showing the new changes, hopefully this will help you to see their plans and what they want to add to facebook in the future.
Looks quite similar? But it really isnt, features include: Notifications, requests, and inbox are prominently displayed next to the Facebook logo. Chat remains on the bottom. They have also opted for placing the search box in the middle therefore making more searches, this is in the running to be more like twitter. If you look on the current homepage design, you’ll find the updates of all of your friends, but yours isn’t constantly there, reminding you to update your old, outdated status. There’s a new border around the main content. It separates your left-hand navigation and notifications from your Facebook news feed. And finally i have to show you an extra image of the new quick inbox access, It gives you direct access to your most recent messages without leaving the homepage, which should increase engagement.
So what are your views on the changes, i think they look great and will add extra ease to the use of the social networking site. The only thing i am not looking forward to is the 500 Different groups that will be expressing their hate for the new layout saying “1 Million Members To Get The Old Layout Back” (If your one of those, its not going to happen so don’t bother), maybe they should remove groups that have been joined from the news feed. Anyway, lets not look at the negative, most sensible people that read a blog post and are interested will support me in saying that this evidently should improve the service overall.
More New Images Above , Updated At 8PM GMT.
[WARNING] NEW FACEBOOK WORM
Nov 23rd
According to one of AVG’s bloggers, the worm spreads as users that are already logged into the social network click on the suggestive photo that is being placed on their walls by infected friends.
Here’s how it works:
On your wall the thumbnail of the worm’s infective page is a link to the page.
The worm’s objective, of course, is that others viewing the victim’s wall will click the link, and as they are logged into Facebook, the worm will spread through peoples walls and continue to irritate the population of facebook, displayed is an image of what to look out for.
THE TECHNICAL STUFF:
This Is known as a CSRF attack.
A sequence of iframes on the exploit page call a sequence of other pages and scripts, eventually resulting in a form submission to Facebook “as if” the victim had submitted a URL for a wall post.
While this attack seems to cause more embarrassment than it does damage to your computer or account, it also seems like one of the easier ones to fall for since all it requires is one click to join the app. Just try and avoid this one.
