facebookprivacyandsecurity – Blogroll entry #4

One of the biggest stories regarding Facebook spam that has broke out last week-end was attack on Facebook’s own Help Center. I read the story on the Sophos Security Blog, but the news was first reported by the website facebookprivacyandsecurity, the Unofficial Guide To Facebook Privacy And Security.

Although I had this website bookmarked I did not read it, but after that news I started reading their older stories and found them very interesting. The website is all about Facebook, but does not focus on a particular area of it as it reports spam news, Facebook issues and algorithms, and new features from Facebook.

From their ‘About’ page I can see that ‘This blog is created by normal Facebook users who want to use Facebook as its tagline promotes; ‘to connect and share with the people in our life’.  When products or procedures contradict Facebook’s policies, or when users aren’t given control of what they share as Mark Zuckerberg states he understands that is what they want, we might take objection.  Facebook makes a lot of money because people like us are happy to tell them what cola we prefer and where we go on the weekend. We like Facebook, we applaud the innovations of the engineers, we do sometimes take objection to the way in which those innovations are executed, and given that Facebook is charged with keeping our data safe, we are at liberty to discuss those objections in a polite and respectful manner.’

As you can see, the blog isn’t a hateful one, but rather one that tries to improve the Facebook experience pointing out things that the owners of the blog consider to be wrong.

The address is http://facebookprivacyandsecurity.wordpress.com and I recommend you to take a look.

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