Friday 21 September 2012

Facebook Plugin Offers Another Way to Control Privacy


Facebook has offered another way to control which activities you’ll share when using apps that interact with Facebook on the web. A new plugin called Shared Activity lets users modify their privacy settings while in a particular web app, giving them control of who sees their activities created on that app in Facebook.
Facebook’s Developer Blog offered an example (pictured at right) of how this new plugin works:
“From the plugin on sites such as Airbnb, people can set the default Facebook audience for activity shared from your app, or manage the settings for stories previously published to Facebook, including selecting an audience or removing it altogether.”
These capabilities are already available in Facebook itself, but now users won’t need to leave an app to adjust its sharing settings. The plugin is complimentary to the current ability to adjust sharing details in three different places within Facebook: in the Timeline itself, in Facebook’s app settings, or its activity log.
This new plugin gives users more convenient control of who gets to see their input. For instance, if a user doesn’t want the general public to see what stories he likes in a certain app, or his comments within it, he can adjust that without leaving the application and going back to Facebook.
Adding another way to ensure privacy on Facebook sounds like a great idea, but do you think this plugin will add yet another layer of complexity for users to navigate? Is it too much?

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