The release of 60 new apps that employ Facebook’s “frictionless sharing” has sparked another round of internet debate about the value of the functionality, and the shift to getting users activated on the site’s new Timeline design.
A poll by Sophos suggests many users are unhappy with Timeline and Philip Landau posed the question on the Guardian’s work blog: What if Facebook Timeline was read instead of your CV?
Nick Bradbury blogged about how actually more friction is added to the sharing process, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped 5 billion song plays being shared. Whatever that means.
Facebook are introducing a new, inline privacy setting that allows a user to control who can see their app activity on Facebook. With this setting, people can share their app activity with as large or small an audience as they'd like. … On February 1, 2012, all apps will be enabled for the improved dialog, but those that haven’t fully configured their dialog can disable the setting in the Developer App until February 15, at which time it will be turned on for all apps.
The latest changes which make app permissions in Facebook more prominent … will definitely get brands and marketing types tense, but for once I think users are going to think it's brilliant. Facebook (rightly) get a hard time on privacy so it's good to see them giving more power and control to their users.
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