Facebook v8 For iOS Launches At Snapchat With Further Private One-To-Few Photo Discussing

Facebook v8 For iOS

 Don’t want all friends and family to see your pics? That’s a big reason Snapchat has grown to be so popular, and now Facebook really wants to capitalize on more individual sharing. Facebook for iOS 8. 0, launched today, offers an quick “Share with only most of these friends” option, allowing you to select specific people who you want your photo to apparently in News Feed. The selector works and also looks a bit such as Snapchat.

Now whenever you head to share a status update, or photo, you’ll see the viewers of that post at the summit. For most people that’s established to “Friends”, but a tap reveals the selector and choose from your pre-made good friend lists or individuals to share with by tapping his or her Snapchat-esque bubbles. To do that before, you’d have to generate a new friend list any time you shared, which I doubt anyone was doing.

Because 2007, Facebook has been trying to push the thought of “microsharing”. The theory is that if you’ll be willing to share a wider variety connected with content and post with greater regularity if only a subset of your respective friends can see the item.

The problem is that will Facebook wanted users to be able to pre-make these lists or even groups, which can feel as if an arduous and demanding chore. “Does this guy belong during my super close friend listing, my wider set connected with local buddies, my going-to-the-bar listing, or what? ” As a result, Mark Zuckerberg said this season that “Almost no one really wants to make lists…The most we’ve gotten is 5% to generate lists, and most don’t make several. ”

This is to some extent why Facebook relaunched Groupings that day, which Zuckerberg not long ago said have 500 thousand users. Groups are great for sharing of a certain topic to people who are interested, but not really for sharing to a select set of good friends. Facebook has also attempted offering Smart Lists who have functions like notifying you whenever anyone on your own Close Friends list content. It even began suggesting people you need to add to an Acquaintances list who does then show up less freqently with your News Feed.

Path tried to address the microsharing lists problem with you start a completely social graph of merely your closest friends, but people typically over-added friends whilst still being didn’t want to share compared to that many people. Snapchat nailed it by helping you to choose exactly who to share each post to.

Facebook’s new Share With feature on the right, Snapchat on the left

Now Facebook does exactly the same. While the new function isn’t ephemeral messaging as well as photo chat (Facebook currently has that in Messenger), maybe it's seen as a heir to Facebook’s failed Snapchat replicated Poke. If it’s a hit, people might become more comfortable sharing silly or racy photos simply because can easily make them visible to only their favorite people or those that will find them fun. That could help Facebook soak upward more engagement time and also user data, as properly as foster closer human relationships between friends.

But it’s also quite possible that no person will notice the completely new “Share With Only These Friends” feature and individuals will just keep of sharing with their default audience. Adding in new strategies to share hasn’t gone so well for mobile blog recentiy. Instagram Direct, an image messaging feature flopped, while Snapchat’s Stories means of sharing publicly hasn’t made a great number of waves either. You can teach a classic app new tricks, but it’s a good deal harder to get visitors to remember to use them.

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Limit your participation in Facebook social ads

The new generation of Facebook ads allows marketers to tailor their pitches based on your Facebook profile, interests, location, friends, and Web activities.


What makes Facebook worth $100 billion? (Likely somewhat less, as Suzanne Vranica and Shayndi Raice explain in The Wall Street Journal.)
Topping the list is the revenue-generating potential of the company's upcoming Premium ads and other new advertising programs.
Facebook, Google, and just about every other big-name Web service make their money by selling ads that get targeted based on what they know about you. The companies say they don't sell personally identifiable information to third parties, but one way or another, information about their users is the services' bread and butter.
The Facebook Data Use Policy explains all the company's sources of information about its users. Of course Facebook records what you do on the site, but it also gleans information from the device you use to sign in:

We receive data from the computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access Facebook. This may include your IP address, location, the type of browser you use, or the pages you visit. For example, we may get your GPS location so we can tell you if any of your friends are nearby.

In some way, shape, or form, what Facebook knows about you is converted into a commodity of value to advertisers. The resulting ads attempt to persuade you to take some action, most often to buy something. A Facebook advertiser is also hoping you'll click the Like button, post a comment, or even better, share the ad with your Facebook friends.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. This is capitalism, after all. The only thing missing is awareness among Facebook users of how their personal information -- identifiable or not -- is being used.
People may not know that when they click a Like button, post a comment, or share a link on a company's Facebook page, they may become part of an online ad network. The Facebook Ads settings let you limit your participation in social ads, but it may simply be too soon to opt out entirely.
How much do you really need to share about yourself?
The Facebook for Business site describes the user information the company uses to target advertisements:

Think about the profiles (timelines) of the people you want to reach with your ads, and select criteria based on what your audience is interested in, instead of what they might be looking to buy.

You can target by:

• Location, Language, Education, and Work
• Age, Gender, Birthday, and Relationship Status
• Likes & Interests: Select Likes & Interests such as "camping," "hiking," or "backpacking" instead of "tents" or "campers"
• Friends of Connections
• Connections

No Facebook user could be faulted for wanting to restrict how much Facebook and the company's advertisers know about them. The easiest way is to limit the personal information in your profile. Consider that your friends and family already know you pretty well.
If you use your Facebook account for work, don't include anything in your profile, timeline, and elsewhere that you wouldn't gladly share with your boss, your boss' boss, your boss' boss' boss, etc. While you can create subgroups within a profile and restrict access to profile data, it's safer to have two separate profiles for work and nonwork..

Use the drop-down to choose who can view your Facebook profile data.

To edit your Facebook profile, click your name to open your profile and click the Edit Profile button in the top right. (Note that your name, profile pictures, networks, username, and user ID are always public.)
Use the drop-down menu to the right of an entry to change who can view the information (public, friends, list, only you), or click Custom for more options (friends of friends, specific people or lists).

  Run through the profile categories in the left pane and remove or limit access to your personal info. When you're satisfied with what you're sharing and with whom, click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the window.

The custom view options for Facebook profile data include friends of friends and specific people.

Keep in mind that "Only me" actually means "only me and Facebook and anyone Facebook decides to share it with -- in the aggregate, of course (cough, cough)." This may cause you to think twice about including in your profile more personal information than is absolutely necessary.
Many, many Facebook users want to share their profile information with the public. They may also want to attract as many Facebook "friends" as they can. Even the most public of Facebook profiles can be kept private to an extent.
The simplest way to limit the audience of a status update is by clicking the Friends button on the bottom right of the text box and choosing one of your lists of friends (the menu's options are the same as those shown above for editing profile entries).
Facebook's privacy options include a social-ad opt-out
Facebook regularly tweaks its privacy settings. At present, the three options shown when you click Home > Privacy Settings are Public, Friends, and Custom.
Click Custom to change the default privacy setting for your posts to friends of friends, specific people or lists, or only you. Enter the people you don't want to see your posts by default in the "Hide this from" text box. Finally, click the Save Changes button.

Change who sees your Facebook status updates by default via the Custom Privacy Settings dialog.

The "How you connect" settings below the default options let you customize who can look you up by name, e-mail address, or phone number, and who can send you messages and friend requests.
The options under Profile and Tagging restrict who can post on your wall, who can view the posts, whether you want to review posts and tags before they appear, and whether you want to activate Facebook's auto-recognition feature for images other people post.

Click Edit Settings next to Ads, Apps and Websites. The simplest solution is to choose "Turn off all apps" under "Apps you use." You can also change the information individual apps can access or delete apps one at a time.
To prevent your friends from dragging information about you along with them when they use apps, click Edit Settings next to "How people bring your info into apps they use." Uncheck everything and click Save Changes.
Make sure instant personalization is disabled unless you want to participate in Facebook's partnership with such sites as Bing, Yelp, Pandora, and Rotten Tomatoes. You can also enable or disable public search.
The first of the two options under Ads lets you opt out of a feature that the company hasn't yet enabled: giving third-party applications and ad networks permission to use your image and name in ads.
To limit your participation in Facebook's social ads, click "Edit social ads settings" at the bottom of the window. Choose "No one" next to "Pair my social actions with ads for" and click Save Changes.

Opt out of Facebook's social ads by choosing "No one" on the Facebook Ads page.

 

If only it were that simple. The era of social ads is just beginning. We don't know what we're opting into or out of. One of Facebook's new ad initiatives is Facebook Offers, which targets local deals, as CNET's Charles Cooper described in a post from last month.
Also in the offing are Logged Out ads that play a video ad when you sign out, and Reach Generator, which promises to ensure an advertiser's posts are received by nearly all of the company's Facebook fans.
What Facebook will look like this time next year is anybody's guess. Something tells me the ads will be more prominent, one way or another. The logical next step: a paid version with no ads, a music and video service, etc.
Either that or people get sick of the ads and choose to socialize elsewhere. Maybe 900 million monthly users isn't the insurmountable lead it appears to be. Then again, any company that has caught the attention of one-eighth of the planet should not be underestimated.

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Disable social reader apps in Facebook

You've probably seen Social Reader articles pop up on Facebook, and may have accidentally signed up for the app yourself. Learn how to avoid sharing everything you read.

Many of us, maybe all of us, use Facebook to share interesting articles and other things we find online. The Social Reader app, and other similar apps, try to make this process simpler, but often end up oversharing or otherwise crossing the line into annoying. Here's how you can keep from sharing everything you read:

    If you've already signed up for a Social Reader app, it's pretty easy to disable it or to limit what it shares. Just open up your Account Settings using the small drop-down menu in the top right next to the word Home, then select the Apps tab in the left sidebar. This should bring up a list of apps with access to your Facebook account. You can either remove the app's access entirely by clicking the X next to its name or click Edit to change its properties. (You may also want to prune the rest of the list while you're at it.)

Disable app in Facebook.

If you're sick of seeing what your friends are reading, it's easy to block Social Reader and other apps. The next time one pops up in your timeline, just mouse over the item near the top-right corner until a drop-down icon appears. Click it, and at the bottom of the list you should see "Hide all by [name of app]." Click it and you'll never see posts like that again!
If you see something that looks totally intriguing, but you don't want to sign up for a social reader app to view it, just copy its title and paste it into your favorite search engine. It's about 10 percent more effort for 100 percent more privacy.

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Change your Facebook cover photo using the Android app

At long last Android users can change their Facebook cover photo using the Android app -- a feature still missing from the iOS app. Here's a quick video showing you how it works.

Last night, Facebook pushed an update to its Android app that lets users update their cover photo from directly within the app. In the past I had covered an Android app that helped you create a new cover photo, but it required you to use the Web site in order to actually change the photo.
To change your cover photo using the Android app, make sure you're running the latest version of the Facebook app. Pull up your own timeline and tap on your cover photo. You can then select "View Photo" or "Change Cover"; of course, we want the latter option. Select your new cover photo from the Gallery, align it and then tap "Use" to upload the photo. Watch the video below for a walk-through of the process:


As for iOS users, well, you're going to have to wait until Facebook gets around to updating the app to bring back the feature. Prior to Facebook ditching HTML5 for a native version of the app, users were able to change their cover photo from an iOS device.

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