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! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
Top Ten Links Week 21
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
What’s at Stake With Facebook is Not Privacy or Publicity But Informed Consent and Choice
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,
Facebook Community Pages vs Official Pages and Your Library or Business
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
Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization – Yes You Have to Opt Out
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
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