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Friday, 14th May 2010

A Review of Facebook News & Commentary (And Lots of It)

+ UPDATES: Friday, May 14th: Your public Facebook status updates are now publicly searchable outside of Facebook (via TechCrunch)

See Also: Access Facebook Search
Update: That was fast, Facebook Search is now known as Openbook.

& OneRiot Begins Indexing Facebook “Likes,” Shared Content (2010/4/28)

and

+ How To Protect Your Facebook Account From Scams (via Business Insider

On Thursday, Facebook began the day launching a new site/one-stop for showcase how Congress is using the service. It's named: Congress on Facebook. The company has another government-wide compilation of sites named: Facebook and Government. Btw, Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina). is two friends away from hitting the 33,000 fans mark. Other U.S. Senator's who use Facebook are nowhere close to 33,000. In the House of Representatives, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has over 29,000 friends. She also has thousands more Facebook friends than any other Rep.

Meanhile, at HQ in California, Facebook holds an all-hands meeting.

Facebook to Address Employees’ Anxiety about Privacy (via Digits, WSJ)
and Facebook holding all-hands privacy meeting (via VentureBeat)

+ The Company Also Launched a New Program to Help Manage Logins. Staying in Control of Your Facebook Logins (via Facebook Bog) and Facebook Launches New Privacy Controls To Block Login Abuse (via The Next Web)

+ Has Facebook’s Active User Growth Dropped 25% to 50%? (via Search Engine Land)

+ Facebook IDs Hacker Who Tried to Sell 1.5M Accounts (via PCMagazine)

+ Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking (NY Times)

Pop quiz: Which is longer, the United States Constitution or Facebook’s Privacy Policy? If you guessed the latter, you’re right. Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, without any of its amendments, is a concise 4,543 words.

From Earlier in the Week:

Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions (via NY Times)
Elliot Schrage, vice president for public policy, Facebook answers the questions. Useful info or nothing you already didn't know? Who actually wrote the responses? Did PR have a say in what was sent to The Times?
"Kill Your Facebook Page" Backlash Gains Speed (via PCWorld)
Well known writers who cover tech share their views including a couple that discuss the QnA in the NYT.

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