Facebook Plugin Offers Another Way to Control Privacy

Facebook has offered another way to control which activities you'll share when using apps that interact with Facebook on the web. A new plugin called Shared Activity lets users modify their privacy settings while in a particular web app, giving them control of who sees their activities created on that app in Facebook.

Facebook's Developer Blog offered an example (pictured at right) of how this new plugin works:

"From the plugin on sites such as Airbnb, people can set the default Facebook audience for activity shared from your app, or manage the settings for stories previously published to Facebook, including selecting an audience or removing it altogether."

These capabilities are al…
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