Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

How To Manage Your Privacy On Facebook

As a retailer, I know there are many legal requirements to protect and not misuse personal data. Not so the social networks like Facebook because people voluntarily give up their information. This article in the New York Times shows how managing your privacy on Facebook involves 50 settings and 170 options and a privacy policy longer than the US constituion.
You can argue that the Facebook guys just want us to have the maximum number of options when it comes to sharing our personal information. Then again, given that the company has come in for a lot of criticism after stalkers, paedophiles and others have used Facebook for nasty purposes, you'd think it might be better advised to assume that everybody wants maximum privacy and to let people opt in to the various levels of sharing.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Dora Designs On Facebook- Fun Comes First


Our shop Your Life Your Style already has a Facebook page. We've now started an I Love Dora Designs group. We want people who love Dora Designs to find out more about Doras, post photos and news, and to talk to each other. This is not set up to sell Doras but many successful businesses on the internet have learnt that by providing a useful service first, sales follow. If we do sell a few Doras, we'll be happy but, if not, it's still fun to run a Dora Designs Fan Club.