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May 29, 2014 12:25 am GMT

Facebook Is Trying to Be Less Creepy

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For the second time in two weeks, Facebook has made a concerted effort to be less creepy

Exhibit A: The company's decision last week to make the default for new users "friends" instead of public. Exhibit B: On Tuesday, Facebook began downplaying passive updates from third party apps. That means there will be fewer instances of updates such as, "Todd is listening to the Starland Vocal Band on Spotify" clogging up your News Feed

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As enhancements go, these are pretty minor — really minor, actually. In the first instance, Facebook could have made much bigger strides against creepiness if it made the friends setting the default for everyone and notified them of this. Changing the setting for new users is a tacit acknowledgment that such newbies (who are these people just signing up, anyway?) never noticed their default settings — so Facebook was, in effect, taking advantage of their naiveté. Read more...

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