Your Mom’s Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block Them

• Your Mom’s Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block Them

  tags: Facebook

  • Facebook launched some fairly impressive new features and services at its recent f8 conference, but some of them were also more than just a little scary.
  • What do these changes mean? And what should you do if you don’t like the prospect of automatically sharing your activity with everyone you know on Facebook?

  • Liking without logging in:

    The biggest change Facebook has launched will let any website you visit display a simple “like” button, for example on a story at CNN.com — although CNN has decided to use the term “recommend” instead. If you click that button, it will show all of your friends back on Facebook that you liked that story, by posting it on your Facebook wall. It will also show you — in the same box on the CNN site that has the “recommend” button — how many of your friends liked that story.

  • Some sites will be allowed to take this ability even further, and show you personalized content based on the details of your public profile at Facebook, which they will be able to read and interpret without asking you.
  • The easiest way out of all of these new features, of course, is to simply not log in to Facebook, or to cancel your account. In order to do that, you have to go to this page, down at the bottom, and click “deactivate.”

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