Facebook’s introduction of Graph Search has been greeted with — wait for it — complaints about privacy. Graph Search is a feature Facebook introduced to allow users to enter parameter-based searches to find friends — and friends of friends — who share certain interests. A search for “friends who ski” or even more specifically “friends who ski in Arizona” will narrow the results within that field. Concerns arose when Facebook made changes in December to its privacy policy to make way for Graph Search.
It will be interesting to see if companies that are a bit too aggressive on facebook will start to inflame the privacy for Facebook. Currently, all of these reactions have been due to Facebook's actions, but Graph really gives companies a lot of reach. This was an interesting article and we included it into our top posts for today. http://ecommerceouttakes.com/
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Facebook's Graph Search Turns Up Privacy Issues
Posted by: Enid Burns January 19, 2013 06:00 AMFacebook’s introduction of Graph Search has been greeted with — wait for it — complaints about privacy. Graph Search is a feature Facebook introduced to allow users to enter parameter-based searches to find friends — and friends of friends — who share certain interests. A search for “friends who ski” or even more specifically “friends who ski in Arizona” will narrow the results within that field. Concerns arose when Facebook made changes in December to its privacy policy to make way for Graph Search.