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By: Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming

Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:33:22 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:18:58 +0000

@Liz Should be this week or next

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:44:07 +0000

[...] Chat - that has been rumored since last week. Our real time notes and pictures from the event are here. See CNET for more. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:32:43 +0000

Adding features that are not features (Facebook)…

Techcrunch tells us about upcoming changes within Facebook or its system. One of them is a built-in messenger. I get why it would seem like a good idea, your users obviously communicate through your website, but is instant-messenging an additional func…

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:48:31 +0000

Is there any timeline for Facebook chat? Like when it will be launched officially in facebook?

Thanks!

By: Mr. Crash

Mr. Crash — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:26:35 +0000

Can someone remind me why it is that i’m supposed to care about farcebook?

*yawns* all social networking services are overvalued. Especially facebook.

Thank you for perpetuating the bubble.

By: EJ

EJ — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:37:23 +0000

Sweet! Now I can start to complain about the egregious lack of Skype-style voice chat!

Really, though, these additions come very close to eliminating any reason to maintain a Myspace account. If they beef up the musician section (really just provide an appealing standardized layout with an integrated streaming music player), Rupert Murdoch’s investment will be dead in the water.

By: Sneezy Melon

Sneezy Melon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:27:07 +0000

The new privacy features are pretty interesting. Orkut, Hi5 had already a lot to catch up. Now, the difference has become even larger, eh?

By: JayDawg

JayDawg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:56:19 +0000

This is game changing. ICQ now has a competitor! Will Prodigy survive?

By: Miles Price (iCluck)

Miles Price (iCluck) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:23 +0000

Interesting, I want to see an API and I want to see the other social networks follow with the same idea of chat - Imagine being capable of chatting with people from LinkedIN, MySpace and Facebook in each of the windows/tabs with each site making money from the page views through ads.

Good idea

By: Greg Tracy

Greg Tracy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:27:17 +0000

I sure hope they put a focus on the API for chat…. Bringing chat into your Facebook apps would be very powerful.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:11:41 +0000

@Sanjay - you won’t be able to turn off archiving, at least yet

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:48:16 +0000

@8 FUCK YOU

If you had some real friends, you probably would’ve realised that people talk about things on IM in a manner that isn’t representative of them. I just don’t want a paper trail.

By: Tyler Wright

Tyler Wright — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:45:30 +0000

I agree with Andrew. Looks like a 17 year old presenting her final Social Studies project for the year.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:00:57 +0000

What a weird looking presentation for such a big feature release!

Projecting onto a white board with a crop-off the top seems very messy to me - not super professional.

Michael: Did you feel the same?….or did it fit into the Facebook ethos?

By: Jcyreus

Jcyreus — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:49:32 +0000

@5, the thing to keep in mind is to limit the degree of “personal” that you put out there. Like I was always told and continue to pass on to my daughters…don’t let anyone ever take any pictures of you that you wouldn’t want your parents to see. Same applies to what kind of personal info you share with the world on FB.

By: gregory

gregory — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:48:49 +0000

“they give permission to use their likeness and name simply by using facebook.”

didn’t like this line

makes me think nothing essential will change at this company

By: JosefVirek

JosefVirek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:38:38 +0000

@1, tsk tsk tsk..and the first thing you think of is cybersex.

By: PeoplePortability

PeoplePortability — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:13:05 +0000

>smart enough to respond with innovation and enhancements.

Give us People Portability and the world will be thankful…

By: MistOne

MistOne — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:10:02 +0000

all good news - naysayers announcing the impending doom of fb are just a bit too eager - must remember that fb is a young company, may make a few mistakes along the way but smart enough to respond with innovation and enhancements.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:06:15 +0000

I mean, frankly one of the things that creeps me out about Facebook is that most of our personal lives are stored online and there seems to be no way to permanently delete the data (Facebook does have very powerful privacy settings but there’s no way to “Delete” the account, only ways to deactivate).

Now, they have the IM Chats too…Oh boy!

By: Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:35 +0000

I “buzzed” this story up.

By: Everett

Everett — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:18 +0000

I think FB is going the right direction with privacy. As some of the TC readers have commented from articles past, in a few years people will regret having all their info out there. I totally agree with that.

By: 113.com

113.com — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:14 +0000

Hope that’s one step forward towards more data portability…

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:04:42 +0000

Mike, is it possible to turn off archiving or have chats “off the record” (like in Gmail)?