Facebook’s new privacy setting an instant hit
August 25, 2011 by admin
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KOCHI: For Facebook addicts in the city, the social networking site’s plan to be more serious about its privacy settings is a welcome change. Most of them seem to be true blue Facebook loyalists, who can’t seem to make the switch to Google +.
As Divya Ann Thomas, a management student of Rajagiri points out, “Google + lets anyone add me into their ‘circle’, we don’t seem to have a say in that”. In this whole angle of which of the two rules the roost, she circles her vote for Fb. “Google also came into the market after seeing the growing popularity of the other, and they also came in with the same template right?”, says this marketing student.
“Facebook and the type of ‘profile harvesting’ that it does is now a known fact”, says Richy D Alexander, COO of a start-up brand building company. “Through the Farmville or love calculator, or by you liking the Nike ad, you are actually telling your likes and your needs to a corporate which can make use of it”. Who ever seem to have gone to Google + is because of its heightened privacy settings, but what Google will do with such information is still left to be seen he adds.
“The access and the comfort that Fb provides is unparallel, plus I can’t find my friends active at all in Google +”, tells Vaishaki Ramesh, a law student of the city. “The privacy settings, like the option of blocking and ‘listing’ was always there in Fb too”.
Facebook overhauling its privacy setting is to give easier and more precise controls to its users. This would give in plain language the advantage of Google+ to the Fb user. It seems that Fb is trying to catch hold of Google+ converts if any. For many youngsters in Kochi though Fb is trying too hard on already victorious grounds. “Facebook and the type of ‘profile harvesting’ that it does is now a known fact”, says Richy D Alexander, COO of a start-up brand building company. “Through the Farmville or love calculator, or by you liking the Nike ad, you are actually telling your likes and your needs to a corporate which can make use of it”. Whoever seem to have gone to Google + is because of its heightened privacy settings, but what Google will do with such information is still left to be seen he adds.
“The access and the comfort that Fb provides is unparallel, plus I can’t find my friends active at all in Google +”, tells Vaishaki Ramesh, a law student of the city. “The privacy settings.
