MySpaceSafetyTips.com

Facebook.com has been a very hot topic in social networking blogs in the past week. On September 5, Facebook updated its user interface to include "Feed" functionality. Suddenly, a time-stamped record of every profile change and post made by a Facebook user became visible to all of their Facebook friends, without the friends even having to visit the person's profile. Enormous numbers of Facebook members were horrified, complained, and Facebook made changes and admitted the Feed changes were a "mistake."

Facebook and MySpace profile designer and developer Eston Bond wrote a very interesting commentary on this event on his hyalineskies.com blog, titled "A slap in the Facebook".

Eston's post includes:

• an actual example of the Facebook Feed
• analysis of the Facebook community's reaction to the new feature
• discussion of the fact that the same information Facebook was posting was already easily obtainable using third-party scripts
• interesting discussion of privacy concerns and lack of concern among social networking participants, and the "line" that Facebook apparently crossed

A very good read, highly relevant for MySpace users and anyone concerned about the massive open personal information database that the Internet has become.