Privacy+Settings

the Big One: FACEBOOK



Facebook allows users to chose between three distinct groups of idnividuals whom to allow access to your account. Simply put, most poeple enjoy having only their friends only access their page. Allowing access to only friends allows customaizations onto what is allowable based on the individuals personal preference, or rather level of comfort. Each friend list can have specific privavy policies attached. This can be broken down into friends, family, and professional. This is epsecially good for corporate instances where different groups of people are located all around the world.

Another interesteing feature is the ability to remove yourself from search results. LIterlally making yourself invisible to the world. Who wants their nae coming up in a search engine for annonymous poeple to view. By default facebook makes it visible to those searching names in whatever network you may be part of. In conjunction with this, facebook pages appear on google when serached through said engine. This option can also be removed.

The main feature people are attrackted to on facebook is the photoalbum. here popele can post pictures of themselves with their friends, in whcih they are 'tag'd'. their name appearing depiciting who they are in the picture. This allows for easy face recognitioin should people be in the same place at the same time ever again. The tag option be can removed so no one can see you.

Facebook allows you to prevent stories from showing up on your friends feeds or walls. Who really wants to know when that tragic moemtn when you broke up with yoru girlfriend perse; well other than those whom are on your immediate friends.

Those most impporatnt piece of privacy information is how much contact info is released.

USER FEEDBACK:

``Privacy options are great, but at some point, why even HAVE an online presence if you need to block that many features? The same good old fashioned rule applies here... don't air your dirty laundry on the internet. ``

``I also want function like block certain user to comment at my wall or pics or notes or posted item. I also want to see function to hide specific friend status.```

Its annoying when somebody keep update same status specifically if its related to promoting something.

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MSN LIVE:



MSN live, constantly updating itself with newversions, came out originally in June 22nd, 1999. As of now we are on windows live messenger 7.

Msn has a basic privacy setting; this is only becuase of the basic nature of the program. Only friends accepted to begin with are on your contact list. From there it is a simple allow or disallow process. To disallow some makes it as you dont ever go online, it is just their attempted name to add as a contact. The second premise, which i believe to be pretty be clevar, is that msn has allowed one you view who has added them to their contact list. There is always that weary suspicion since it appears as though the added person is always offline when they are blocked, but whether it is a real person or not. This helps, at the very least, the person on the receiving end know who might want to add them to their contacts. Other than that the program is very basic. The same system of chat is offered in the lower right hand corner of ones browser when Facebook is open.

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