Ed note: I’ll be offline for about a week starting Wednesday 7-29, taking a cross country road trip.
TechCrunch has the highlights of the recent Facebook privacy changes. I’m not talking about the “Can we use your photo in our ads” situation, but how Facebook knows their privacy controls are too complicated and confusing and is implementing features like Transition Tool to make it easier for people to controls who sees what in their profile.
Facebook has to find the delicate balance between user privacy demands and wanting as much information to be publicly searchable and viewable – the more you do that ends up in your activity stream, the more people will click links to apps and other items, increasing the viral nature of Facebook overall.
Perhaps creating a dating network as opposed to a regional network would be helpful. Networks would correlate to particular niches, and be more like tags. There would have to be some way to aggregate tags like straight, LA, runner, kayaking and turn them into a meta-group. Actually, this seems a lot like Matchmaker.
Another baby-step closer to Facebook becoming the largest dating site in the world.
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of all social networking sites, I think people love Facebook because it tends to be very tight when it comes to marketing strategies and spammers. in a way, it allows a normal human being to interact in a way that social networking sites are supposed to be. anyway, Facebook hookups are prevalent so I don’t see the need to develop Facebook to look and feel like an online dating site.
I would disagree that FB has tight marketing strategies and sure people hook up, but I certainly wouldn’t call them prevalent, at least according to what I’ve been reading. Nobody said it has to look and feel like a dating site. I would hope for the exact opposite.
Yes I’ve got the same feeling about the Face Book and it is scaring me a little bit. There are a lots of miner age members in FB who just like to play games etc.. and they keep sending friend request to the others for having more out of their games. But! Than they get a lots of love messaging which is disturbing. In my dating site ( http://www.cafecupid.com ) there are also games to play or videos to watch but the minimum age is to register is 18. So I don’t know if the FB going to do something about or they are just going to cover their eyes and ears.