Changing face of Facebook
- February 24th, 2010
- Posted in Social Media
- By Scott Vowels
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I’ve recently been noticing a lot of complaints from my facebook friends about the changes to the Facebook User Interface (UI). Along with the UI changes, Facebook has also changed their privacy policy over the last 6 months. What’s happening is that people are getting confused by the changes and assuming that the privacy and security settings are also changing. Added to this, Facebook is being used to distribute malware through their messaging system. This is a very bad combination.
This morning I read an open letter to facebook on Computerworld that describes Facebook being used to distribute fake anti-virus pop ups to distribute malware by bad guys. I hadn’t seen this activity yet. If you have, I’d love to hear about it. I hope Facebook responds to these issues and is able to turn things around. It’s an incredible resource and it’s a shame to see it falling into these practices.
What do you think about Facebook’s security and privacy practices? Is it really that bad?
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Forgot to mention a great app for Facebook security. Defensio. Check it out. Does result in some false positives but it’s worth it. If you know of other cool Facebook apps for security and privacy I’d love to hear about it.
I’ve been using Defensio on Facebook for several months. It’s quite accurate. Seems like every instance of bad language it caught was… from… me.
Here’s a great article on the latest Facebook phishing scam that Defensio is able to take care of.