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.
