Good insights are popping up deconstructing Facebook's big moves this week to extend its reach across the Web. Bottom line: You should pay attention, and consider tweaking your privacy settings again to control the experience.
Basically, the giant social network wants to replicate your Facebook experience everywhere you go on the Web. It is starting with just a few launch partners for what it calls the new “Facebook Platform" -- music service Pandora, review site Yelp and Microsoft Docs.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described it this way in an official blog post:
“For example, now if you're logged into Facebook and go to Pandora for the first time, it can immediately start playing songs from bands you've liked across the web. And as you're playing music, it can show you friends who also like the same songs as you, and then you can click to see other music they like."
Digital music blogger Matt Rosoff, in a post titled “Pandora and Facebook Get Social Music Right," walks us through the Pandora experience in more detail.
“I tried it, and while it's neat to see everything your friends have been listening to, I'd say it's a fair bet that at this point, those friends have no idea they are sharing with you."
If you are squeamish about privacy, you might want to heed this simple instruction that some folks are pasting into their Facebook status updates as a helpful tip for friends. Here is a sample that I grabbed this morning:
There is a new privacy setting called “Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to “Allow." Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites and uncheck “Allow." Please copy & repost.
Over at GigaOm, you can get a deeper tour of how to adjust your settings in a post titled “Your Mom's Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block Them."
Basically, the giant social network wants to replicate your Facebook experience everywhere you go on the Web. It is starting with just a few launch partners for what it calls the new “Facebook Platform" -- music service Pandora, review site Yelp and Microsoft Docs.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described it this way in an official blog post:
“For example, now if you're logged into Facebook and go to Pandora for the first time, it can immediately start playing songs from bands you've liked across the web. And as you're playing music, it can show you friends who also like the same songs as you, and then you can click to see other music they like."
Digital music blogger Matt Rosoff, in a post titled “Pandora and Facebook Get Social Music Right," walks us through the Pandora experience in more detail.
“I tried it, and while it's neat to see everything your friends have been listening to, I'd say it's a fair bet that at this point, those friends have no idea they are sharing with you."
If you are squeamish about privacy, you might want to heed this simple instruction that some folks are pasting into their Facebook status updates as a helpful tip for friends. Here is a sample that I grabbed this morning:
There is a new privacy setting called “Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to “Allow." Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites and uncheck “Allow." Please copy & repost.
Over at GigaOm, you can get a deeper tour of how to adjust your settings in a post titled “Your Mom's Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block Them."
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