Yes its true. Facebook. Facebook is one of my favorite things and not just for checking up on what my out-of-town friends did last weekend. I use it for professional stuff a LOT!

I follow a lot of professional organizations and websites on Facebook. I listed the top six of the library ones in my post 6 Facebook Pages Every Librarian Should Follow:

1. American Library Association – You don’t need to be a dues paying member of ALA to benefit from the stories and information relevant to all libraries they post on Facebook.
2. Webjuction – Webjunction regularly hosts free webinars and conferences like the one coming up this week, Serving the 21st Century Patron, they also share links to other free webinars and resources.
3. Your state and local library association - again you don’t have to pay dues to benefit from the information shared on Facebook and you can do a little online networking too.
4. Library Journal - in addition to their stories (many of which you can read online for free) they also post links to interesting stories around the web.
5. Library Renewal - This is a new project worth keeping an eye on. Libraries need a new electronic content access and distribution infrastructure! www.libraryrenewal.org Research, advocacy and partnerships that get library users the electronic content they want, when they want it, how they want it…via libraries.
6. Learning Round Table of the American Library Association

I also follow:
PCWorld, TechSpot, CrunchGear,TechRepublic, Gizmodo, Engadget, Computers in Libraries, ReadWriteWeb, TED,  Pew Internet & American Life Project, Information Today, Mashable, Wired, TechCrunch, FCC.gov Live, Common Sense Media, BROADBAND for AMERICA, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, PLA, School Library Journal, American Libraries Magazine, Gateway to 21st Century Skills,Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 21st Century Information Fluency, New Media Literacy, Digital Literacy Project, National Center for Family Literacy, News Literacy, Women in Technology, The New Media Consortium, Geek the Library, LLAMA, LITA, LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit, Reclaim Privacy, Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom,  Lifehacker, The Eloquent Woman, Transliteracy, Libraryman,  23 Things Kansas, T is for Training, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, ALA OITP, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Girl Effect, UNICEF, International Center for Research on Women, United Nations Foundation, She’s the First, ForbesWoman, I Want Her Job, Microsoft Citizenship, TechSoup, Media That Matters, Mango Languages, OverDrive for Libraries, ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, Make Use Of, EDUCAUSE, The Case Foundation, YALSA, ALSC, CILIP, Carterette Webinar Series, IOCT, The Aspen Institute.

Plus even more local pages and other general stuff I am interested in like This American Life. So how on earth do I manage all that plus my friends? Lists!

Lists

First I’m a huge fan of lists. List NOT groups. Lists allows you to create, well a list, of people or pages but it doesn’t pull them into it, notify them or involve the other person or organization in anyway.  It allows you to remove them at will, unlike groups. I advise you to stay clear of groups.

I create lists for things like local, library news and general news. When you are looking at your home page on Facebook you can see them on the drop down menu under “most recent”. Click on it will show you only the people and pages on that list. So if you’re only looking for library news, that’s all you’ll see.

If you aren’t familiar with Lists, you create lists by going to your friends page and clicking on the create list button. You can add people or pages by browsing or searching.

Postpost.com

Love, love, love this service. I blogged about it awhile back, but I use it almost every day.

PostPost is a news aggregator for the social generation, and collates the articles, videos, and photos your friends have found interesting enough to post.

Basically it shows you at a glance, in a nice newspaper type style, the links your friends, and the pages you like, have shared on Facebook. Great way to see news without status updates.

Previous Tips & Tools

1. Google Tools

2. Twitter

3. Bit.ly

Stay tuned for Tips & Tricks Four!

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I get asked a lot how I keep up or “do it all” so I thought I’d start sharing some of my favorite tools. I cant’ remember how I discovered PostPost, but I do know this it has made it insanely easy to get the good stuff from Facebook.

It’s easy to set up and use, first go to postpost.com allow access to your Facebook account, after that when you visit postpost.com it gives you a custom view of the links your contacts have posted to Facebook in a newspaper style view. You can choose to just see video, photos or links so no matter what you’re looking for its right there. My contacts share a lot of great information on Facebook but I can’t be logged in every minute to see what’s happening and so I love PostPost because it makes it easy to see at a glance what my contacts are sharing on Facebook.

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There was a time when one of your Facebook account or privacy settings allowed you to disable your “recent activity” from appearing in the newsfeed or on your wall. That went away sometime in the latest year (with profile update 10102029309808098, I think). Facebook completely removed the option to hide your recent activity and instead what you now saw was something like “Bobbi Newman wrote on John Doe’s wall” I and a lot of other people were annoyed by this. I don’t need Facebook notifying all my friends each time I talk to one of them. Some people just learned to deal with the feed, others like me, deleted all of this activity when they get back to a computer.

Last week Facebook started rolling out its latest and greatest profile update. At first I was merely annoyed with it. Why is my job, education, current city, hometown and langauge front and center on my profile. Don’t my friends already know this? It really felt like another push from Facebook to be The One Site. It bothered me because I know a lot of  new people are using Facebook everyday, people who don’t understand Facebook’s privacy settings, agenda and policies.  They aren’t looking to showcase their work they are looking to connect with friends and family, and Facebook is pushing them to use the site professionally. Something we know will most likely not end well.

Tonight I noticed something new instead of saying  ”Bobbi Newman wrote on John Doe’s wall” it actually tells you exactly what I wrote. Even if you are not friends with John Doe. Even if his account is set to private.

I know there are people who will say – if you don’t want it see don’t post it. Whatever. They are missing the point. The point is this – That while this conversation may have taken place in a quasi-public sphere there is NO indication that I wanted this conversation broadcast. (I could argue that if my friends page is private and locked down that this was a private conversation but let’s just call it quasi-private since it happened on Facebook)

We seem to run into the same issue with Facebook’s privacy settings over and over. There is a huge difference in something being publicly available and it being publicized.

Think of it this way you and I are sitting in a coffee shop having a conversation at a table. This is a public venue so our conversation is happening in a public place, but it is just us and we’re conversing quietly so we have an assumption of some level of privacy. Now the guy next to us on his laptop with his headphones on could be listening but chances are he is not. So while this conversation is public it is not being broadcast or recorded.

Now imagine we are sitting in the same coffee shop in the same scenario and the guy at the table next to us is not only listening but he is recording our conversation and broadcasting it to people in the coffee shop and people on the street.

The first scenario accurately reflects how people treat Facebook conversations, we know we’re in public but we assume (right or wrong) that no one is listening or recording. Which is easy to do on Facebook despite past experiences because so much falls off the page in a few days and you forget it ever happened.  What Facebook is doing in this latest update is the later scenario.

Even worse you’re given NO choice. I know there has been a lot of controversy of some of Facebook’s Privacy changes over the last couple of years but in most cases you could change your settings to modify these problems. In this case you can not. Facebook is now broadcasting all of your conversations.

What really kills me is I was looking for stories on this issue and I can’t find any. No one seems to care. Maybe we’re so used to being violated by Facebook we don’t even notice any more.

More about this issue:

• Facebook Tests Full Text Comment Stories in the Recent Activity Feed
• Beware of Facebook Recent Activity – video

Read more about Facebook and privacy in general

• What’s at Stake With Facebook is Not Privacy or Publicity But Informed Consent and Choice
• Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
• Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity
• Why, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet.
• Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated

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I stole this idea from the Ten Facebook Pages Every Techie Should Follow to create a list for Libraries and Transliteracy, now I’m using it here for a general list for all librarians.

Let’s get the shameless self-promotion out of the way!

Librarian by Day – the official page for me & this blog. Sure  you can friend me on Facebook, but maybe you don’t want me to see your vacation pictures, or you get annoyed with how much I post, the Librarian by Day Facebook page keeps your private stuff private while connecting you with select posts and links.

Libraries and Transliteracy- the official page of the Libraries and Transliteracy team.

*end shameless self promotion*

On to the nitty gritty!

1. American Library Association – You don’t need to be a dues paying member of ALA to benefit from the stories and information relevant to all libraries they post on Facebook.

2. Webjuction – Webjunction regularly hosts free webinars and conferences like the one coming up this week, Serving the 21st Century Patron, they also share links to other free webinars and resources.

3. Your state and local library association - again you don’t have to pay dues to benefit from the information shared on Facebook and you can do a little online networking too.

4. Library Journal - in addition to their stories (many of which you can read online for free) they also post links to interesting stories around the web.

5. Library Renewal - This is a new project worth keeping an eye on.

Libraries need a new electronic content access and distribution infrastructure! www.libraryrenewal.org Research, advocacy and partnerships that get library users the electronic content they want, when they want it, how they want it…via libraries.

6. Learning Round Table of the American Library Association - the official page of Learn. Part of being a librarian is life-long learning, Learn share great resources to help with your continuing education.

LearnRT will promote quality continuing education for all library personnel, helping you network with other continuing education providers for the exchange of ideas, concerns and solutions. LearnRT will serve as your source for continuing education assistance, publications, materials, training and activities. LearnRT is your advocate for quality library continuing education at both the local and national levels.

Bonus!

Special Interest pages

These are pages have a narrow focus so I wont recommend them to all librarians, but take a look at the ones that might fall within your interests.

CILIP - take a look at what the British are doing.

CILIP is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the UK.  They provide practical support for members throughout their careers and speak out on behalf of the profession.

Australian Library and Information Association - follow what’s happening down under.

The Australian Library and Information Association [ALIA] is the professional organisation for the Australian library and information services sector.

School Library Journal

School Library Journal (SLJ) is the world’s largest and most authoritative reviewer of children’s and young adult material—from books and audio to video and digital content. In addition to its reviews, SLJ (the magazine, its website, and enewsletters) offers feature stories, news, columns, and departments to help its readers excel in serving children and teens.

ALSC – The Association for Library Service to Children

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is the world’s largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children. ALSC is changing the way that libraries serve children around the country, from creative programming and best practices to continuing education and professional connections—ALSC members are innovators in the field of children’s library service.

YALSA

For more than 50 years, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has been the world leader in selecting books, videos, and audio books for teens.

LITA

The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) is the division of the American Library Association that provides the library and information science community a forum for discussion, an environment for learning, and a program for actions on the design, development, and implementation of automated and technological systems in the library and information science field. LITA’s members come from all types of libraries and institutions focusing on information technology in libraries.

LLAMA (Library Leadership & Management Association)

The mission of the Library Leadership and Management Association is to encourage and nurture current and future library leaders, and to develop and promote outstanding leadership and management practices.

PLA

The Public Library Association (PLA), with more than 11,000 members is one of the fastest growing divisions of the American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library association in the world. PLA’s core purpose is to strengthen public libraries and their contribution to the communities they serve.

Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Medical Library Association

The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit, educational organization with more than 4,000 health sciences information professional members and partners worldwide. MLA provides lifelong educational opportunities, supports a knowledge base of health information research, and works with a global network of partners to promote the importance of quality information for improved health to the health care community and the public.

Special Library Association

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners.

SLA serves more than 11,000 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic and government information specialists.

SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives.

LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit - the summit is long over but they are still posting about issue related to ebooks.

ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point will bring together public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries (K-12) in a day-long virtual conference environment. The day will include keynote presentations and panel discussions on the evolving concept of the book in a
digital world and will keep participants future focused and actively engaged in visioning and assuring an exciting role for libraries.

American Association of School Librarians – technically this is a group, which has a slightly different dynamic than a page.  added 11/30/2010

The mission of the American Association of School Librarians is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library field.

Outside the Echo Chamber

Gretchin Rubin - author of The Happiness Project. I read this book earlier this year and it started my journey of focusing on happiness. Liking this and similar pages on Facebook helps remind me of my focus.

Literary Tattoos - just for fun. Don’t worry you aren’t required to get one to like the page.

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.

I have no doubt pages there are more pages that should be on this list. Leave a comment and let me know I have missed!

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Earlier this week I came across this post Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook in which danah boyd talks about the practices teens undertake to reduce privacy issues and drama on Facebook.  I found it fascinating, not just because of the efforts they put into it, its not easy, but because I do a few of these things and I don’t know of anyone else who does. My efforts seem a little pathetic next to theirs.

One of the girls deactivates her account anytime she’s not on Facebook, these keeps people from posting on her wall and browsing her content when she isn’t around. Another deletes all activity shortly after its posted.

I delete all “recent activity” posts immediately or as soon as I return to a PC.  It annoyed me to no end when Facebook removed the setting that allowed me to turn this off.

I delete old photos, not all of them, just ones I don’t want up any more for one reason or another. Though I probably will delete everything from 2009 soon.*

I delete old status updates, again not all of them, just ones whos moment has past.

What efforts do you make to reduce potential drama or protect privacy?

*Yes I’m aware of the reports that photos are still on the server.

PS If you like you can friend Me on Facebook or if you don’t want to be my friend (and that’s totally cool) you can be a fan of Librarian by Day on FacebookSimilar Posts:

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Today Facebook rolled out it’s newest feature, Places, to US users. It allows you to check in at venues on using the Facebook app on your smart phone a la Foursquare or Gowalla. Facebook goes one step further, it allows others to check you in and you to check others in. Don’t want your friends checking you in? You need to disable this feature, this video from Lifehacker shows you how. Don’t care? Enjoy!

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 5/21/2010 thru 5/27/2010. Ok I’ll confess right off the bat, I cheated, there are 12 links this week.  I just couldn’t cut them down. A couple of these deserve their own blog post so shame on me for not giving them the attention they deserve.

1. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - great article from Peter Bregman with some clear reasons why you should stop multi-tasking

A study showed that people distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQs.

What’s the impact of a 10-point drop? The same as losing a night of sleep. More than twice the effect of smoking marijuana.

Doing several things at once is a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we’re getting more done. In reality, our productivity goes down by as much as 40%. We don’t actually multitask. We switch-task, rapidly shifting from one thing to another, interrupting ourselves unproductively, and losing time in the process.

Even better are the six things he learned the week he stopped trying to multi-task. I really need to do this

• First, it was delightful.
• Second, I made significant progress on challenging projects
• Third, my stress dropped dramatically.
• Fourth, I lost all patience for things I felt were not a good use of my time.
• Fifth, I had tremendous patience for things I felt were useful and enjoyable.
• Sixth, there was no downside.

2. RT @dmlcentral The Dalai Lama taps Internet and social media to engage in rare direct conversation w/ Chinese citizens – yep the Dalai Lama used Twitter.

3. Explaining racial differences in attitudes towards government use of social media – a brief article from the Pew Internet & American Life Project looking at racial differences in the use of social media.

4. 7 of My Favorite Timeless Tips from the Last 2500 Years

1. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie
2. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung
3. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
5. “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” – Gandhi
6. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
7. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

5. RT @kongtemplation: great interview tips for librarians from @lynnemthomas – Tips for Librarian on the job market: 4 tips from the interview stage – a must read for anyone looking for a job

Secret #1: If you have landed an interview, the search committee already believes that you are capable of doing the job as they have described it and as you have indicated on your CV and Cover letter.
Secret #2: Interviews really answer the question “am I willing to work with this particular person every day for the next 10 years?” for good and for ill, on both sides.
Secret #3: The search committee is terrified that you won’t like them, either.
Secret #4: We’re all hoping for The One. The Perfect Gig. The You-Can-Pry-My-Awesome-Job-Out-of-My-Cold-Dead-Hands connection. But mostly? Especially early in our careers, we’re looking for a job that will work pretty well for us, and the search committee is looking for someone to fill their job without making them regret their decision a year or two down the line.

6. “Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not“ (Another blog post on the topic by moi) via @zephoria

People will not leave Facebook en masse, even if a new site were to emerge. Realistically, if that were enough, they could go to MySpace or Orkut or Friendster or Tribe. But they won’t. And not just because those sites are no longer “cool.” They won’t because they’ve invested in Facebook and they’re still hoping that Facebook will get its act together. Changing services is costly, just like moving apartments or changing jobs or breaking up in general. The deeper the relationship, the harder it is to simply walk away. And the relationship that Facebook has built with many of its users is very very very deep. When transition costs are high, people work hard to change the situation so that they don’t have to transition. This is why people are complaining, this is why they are speaking up. And it’s really important that those in power listen to what it is that people are upset about. The worst thing that those in power can do is ignore what’s going on, waiting for it to go away.

7. RT @VenessaMiemis: smart piece on the meaning of privacy in an information age by @doriantaylor – a must read!

8. good convo about tweeting during presentations Twitter, tweeting and ethics via @woodsiegirl – a great discussion about using Twitter during presentations and meeting on the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CLIP) a UK-based professional organization for librarians.

9. 6 Reasons Why People Don’t Change, and What to Do About That – another great post from one of my favorite blogs. Here are the six reasons for how to overcome them read the full post

1. You don’t want to change.
2. You don’t feel courageous enough.
3. Your environment is holding you back.
4. You feel like giving up after one or three failures.
5. You don’t feel enough pain yet.
6. You don’t know how to practically make the change.

10 Why Controlling Bosses Have Unproductive Employees

…if your employees consider you a controlling person, even an unconscious thought of you can have a negative effect on their performance. If, for example, they were to happen to subliminally see, out of the corner of their eyes, your name flash for 60 milliseconds, you could expect them to start working less hard. Even if they didn’t intend to slack off.

11. yes! RT @uMCLE: Clay Shirky & Daniel Pink – a terrific conversation about TV, social networking & motivation – I’m a big fan of both of these gentleman and this is a great conversation

12. RT @zephoria: Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation. Report: Reputation Management and Social Media My comments:Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputationSimilar Posts:

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If you’re still thinking about Facebook and privacy (and if you’re not you should be) these are some must read articles.

Baym at Online Fandom has a recent post titled Why, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet. It addresses some criticism of the criticisms of Facebook in her book including

• Twitter’s public, where’s the rage against Twitter?
• If you think it’s so evil, just leave.
• Facebook needs to make money.
• If you don’t want it shared, don’t share it.

I’ve stayed on Facebook for the same reasons as Nancy has and she explains them much more articulately than I ever could.  I agree with her that “Facebook has engaged in a bait and switch.”

I want a Facebook that really believes that people have a right to select how their information will be shared, instead of a belief that they’re too dumb to figure it out if the settings are too confusing so it’s okay to dupe them.

In danah boyd’s Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) she states

What I find most fascinating in all of the discussions of transparency is the lack of transparency by Facebook itself.

As for statements by Zuckerburg and others that people, especially  youth, don’t care about their privacy, she notes an upcoming report from the Pew and American Life Project

Youth are actually much more concerned about exposure than adults these days. Why? Probably because they get it.

Most notably and as always danah boyd gets to the heart of the matter.

The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent. It’s unfolding because people are being duped, tricked, coerced, and confused into doing things where they don’t understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely unfair. It gives users the illusion of choice and hides the details away from them “for their own good.”

Be sure to read her follow-up Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated

Even more

1. Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions
2. Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options
3. The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand
4. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
5. Publics and Counterpublics

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I have paid very little attention to Facebook’s connections and the community pages it creates until yesterday. Yesterday I took a closer look at connections and my profile page.  Now like many libraries my library has a Facebook page it looks like this.

I kept the library in my work history when I click on that name on my info tab I see this – a community page.

At the top is says

Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Chattahoochee Valley Libraries, sign up and we’ll let you know when we’re ready for your help. You can also get us started by suggesting a relevant Wikipedia article or the Official Site.

Wikipedia? really? ok.

Now I’m not sure what caused the creation I suspect it was me leaving it my work history. Fine. Why didn’t it tie to the official page? So I start looking into community pages.* This is what I’ve been able to determine. Basically they are automatically created, you can’t control them and the content that is posted on the wall is pulled from mentions of the keyword(s) within Facebook.

So if someone posts about your library it will show up on the wall like this.

Now for those of you worried about your privacy the good news is if you have your privacy settings right you wont show up to others

What does this mean for your library?

You might have a Facebook community page.  You might have more than one if there is any variation in the name or if you have branches.  Anything anyone posts on Facebook with the keyword will show up on the wall. You can’t control it. You can’t respond to it. Even if you “like” the page it wont show up in your news feed so you would need to go there to monitor it.

This maybe PRs worst nightmare.  You can’t replace it with an official page, you can’t ask them to delete it. The only thing I can suggest is if you don’t have a Wikipedia entry on your library or business, get one up.

*From Facebook’s FAQs

What are Community Pages?

• Community Pages are a new type of Page that enable you to see what people are saying about the things that matter to you, and discover the friends and people who share these connections with you. They are similar to any other Page to which you can connect, although they won’t generate stories in your News Feed, and won’t be maintained by a single author. Where available, they also show Wikipedia content for the relevant topic, which Facebook has licensed under the creative commons license.
• We think your experience on Facebook will improve as your profile is turned into a living map of all the connections that matter to you, instead of a static list of your interests.
• http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17110

How are Community Pages different from official Pages or Facebook Groups?

• Community Pages are built around topics, causes or experiences. Official Pages are maintained by authorized representatives of a business, brand, celebrity, or organization, and they can create and share content about the entities that they represent. Community Pages, on the other hand, won’t generate stories in your News Feed, and won’t be maintained by a single author.
• While Groups allow you to communicate directly with other people on Facebook about a specific subject, Community Pages simply enable you to learn more about and see what others are saying about additional topics that interest you.
• http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17111

Can I edit the content on a Community Page?

• No. When available, we update the information and profile picture based on the article for that topic in Wikipedia. At this time, there is no way for people who choose to connect with a Community Page to add their own pictures or edit the information.  http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17112

How can I tell the difference between official Pages and Community Pages?

• Community Pages have slightly different content than official Pages. When available, they display a primary picture straight from the Wikipedia page of that topic, along with an info section also from Wikipedia. Related posts from other people on Facebook will also be displayed in real time.
• However, since Community Pages are another type of Page, we don’t differentiate between them when listed on your profile or in search results.
• http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17113

What if there isn’t a Wikipedia article for a Community Page topic?

• Community Pages are meant to be the best collection of shared knowledge on topics that interest you. Where available, they show Wikipedia content for the relevant topic, which Facebook has licensed under the creative commons license.
• If we can’t find the right article from Wikipedia, we might be asking for help from the community. You may see messaging on these Community Pages inviting you to make these Pages more useful and interesting by signing up to contribute in the future or by suggesting a Wikipedia article.

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• Facebook Makes ‘Connections,’ Adds Community Pages
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Facebook does it again! I see this when I check my page today.

Connect with your friends on your favorite websites.

Sounds great. Sounds suspicious. So like a good little librarian I click on the link at the bottom Learn More with “Understand Your Privacy” in small type beneath it. Which takes me to a page telling me how great the new service is.  All the way down at the bottom I see this:

Yes I can easily opt out, not opt in, opt out. Click here indeed!

When I unchecked the box I got this box telling me how sad & lonely my internet experience will be without Instant Personalization.

Except wait, what’s that bit at the end? What the?

Allowing instant personalization will give you a richer experience as you browse the web. If you opt-out, you will have to manually activate these experiences. Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application.

When I click on “Learn More” I go to this page, where I finally find

How do I opt-out of instant personalization?
You can opt-out of instant personalization by disallowing it here. By clicking “No Thanks” on the Facebook notification on partner sites, partners will delete your data. To prevent your friends from sharing any of your information with an instant personalization partner, block the application: Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora, Yelp.

http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17105

Yes you must go to each application and click block.

So to recap to completely opt out you need to

1. Go to your to your privacy settings ->Applications and Websites and uncheck box at the bottom.
2. Then click on the links to Yelp, Pandora and MicrosoftDocs.om on Facebook and click on “Block Application”

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