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Experimental Facebook Feature Shows Better Friend Suggestions
We’ve just discovered an awesome new feature that Facebook is using to experiment with friend request confirmation pages.
When you confirm a new friend, you’ll be presented with four people that friend is connected to – four suggestions for people who might be mutual acquaintances based on your social graph. It’s more useful and more accurate than the current friend/fan suggestion feature, and we actually like it a lot.Check out the screenshots, or try it for yourself the next time someone friend requests you …
Where Do We Find the Time? Social Networking Use Up 82%
Whether we’re tweeting the minutiae of our daily lives from our cell phones, checking out the latest band pages on Myspace, chatting with friends on Facebook, looking up old high school buddies on Classmates or networking with colleagues on LinkedIn, we’re spending more and more time on social networking sites than ever before. Leading the pack, of course, are the usual suspects: Facebook and Twitter.
As a matter of fact, according to Nielsen, we’re spending 82% more time on social networking sites than we did just a year earlier …
Facebook Violates Privacy Contract with Users
Your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, Friends List, and all the pages you subscribe to are now publicly available information on Facebook. This means everyone on the web can see it; it is searchable.
Personally, very early on I made my friends list explicitly not viewable. Why? Because I didn’t want everyone to be able to see who I am friends with. This change is a violation of the social contract that the service had with me. I should, at the very least, have been given warning of this impending change and been allowed time to “defriend” people …