[10:02pm] Sean changed his Privacy options
| Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | --Sean |
One of the primary complaints about the Facebook Newsfeed when it first came out was the sense of loss of privacy. Even though all of these nuggets of information really were already publicly available, it felt different to...well, make it so easy for stalkers. If they really care, they should at least have to try!
Over time, Facebook expanded the privacy options to give you fine-grained control over exactly what would and wouldn't show up in your feed, and everyone was pretty much happy. Everyone's doing feeds now, in fact, and we are no exception -- you can see our Vitality stream starting to show up in the new Yahoo! Messenger. Remembering the lessons that Facebook taught, though, we have all of our Vitality privacy controls available here (which also gives you a good idea about how many updates we're starting to provide, and how many more are possible when you think about all of our other properties). So don't start a Yahoo! Group complaining about our "newsfeed" or anything, please. :D