San Francisco, California (CNN) -- Facebook announced some changes on Wednesday that are intended to make the Internet more social. Essentially, Facebook is stretching out into the rest of the Web.
But what do these new features actually mean for everyday people who use the Internet?
And when you see these Facebook-looking features popping up on other Web sites, how do you know what to do with them?
Here's a quick guide, based on a comments by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, and interviews with developers who create applications for the massively popular social-networking site:
"Like" buttons
Buttons with the word "like" and a thumbs-up icon on them are going to start popping up all over the Internet. By clicking one, you indicate that you find the content interesting, relevant or helpful. Basically, you would recommend it to a friend.
Before Wednesday, "like" buttons only were on Facebook. Now, they'll be all over the place, including on this site. When you click one, you post the item -- whether it's a blog post, photo or celebrity web page -- to your Facebook news feed.
Read about how the feature will work on CNN.com.
The "liked" content may also become part of your Facebook profile, and visible to your friends or to everyone, depending on how your privacy settings are configured on Facebook.
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I am currently researching the ethical issues of privacy entailed in social media sites,this can bring a lot of privacy issues, as well as some possibly beneficial data for companies. What are your thoughts on this issue?
2 comments:
This seems like another flailing attempt from the young Zuckerberg at monetizing the incredible feats of information power of his application.
Personally, I think this will be adding a huge mountain of litter to the already cluttered profiles of Facebook aficionados.
I mean, does anybody else hate your "news" feed being filled with alerts that your uncle Teddy from Enterprise, Alabama "likes" Burger King?
Now imagine being bombarded with similar preference alerts from everything that everyone of those 7,345 "friends," and counting ('cause it's just never enough, is it?)you have on Facebook likes from anywhere in the whole wide, seemingly endless web of "shiite" that is the InterWeb...
Bedolla Out.
Peace.
You stand correct. Facebook is constantly cluttered with random post or information that isn't really all that necessary. Is adding a like button, that will just add to hundreds of thousands of mess that I am bombarded with in my new's feed. I mean don't get me wrong, it might have its benefits at times, but is it something that we absolutely cant live without, honestly!!!
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