An arti­cle in the Van­cou­ver Sun (Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia, Canada) today states that Face­book will revamp the way it pro­tects per­sonal information.

“Pri­vacy com­mis­sioner Jen­nifer Stod­dart on Thurs­day announced Face­book will add “sig­nif­i­cant new pri­vacy safe­guards” to bring the Cal­i­for­nia com­pany into com­pli­ance with Canada’s private-sector pri­vacy law.”

Another point I find important:

“The biggest change, to be imple­mented across the entire Face­book net­work over the next 12 months, will cur­tail the access out­side soft­ware devel­op­ers have to the per­sonal infor­ma­tion of users.”

I don’t know about you but ever since I signed up for Face­book my spam emails has tripled and I get newslet­ters / announce­ments / adver­tise­ments / etc., from peo­ple and com­pa­nies that I never signed up for OR opted in to. I am hop­ing this will help stop that.

Read more of this arti­cle here:

http://snipurl.com/rgxlv

I was read­ing an arti­cle today about Face­book and there were a cou­ple of points I wanted to pass along to you.

1. Face­book lim­its the num­ber of new invites that can be sent in a day, or week. The exact num­ber of invi­ta­tions that are allowed is a Face­book secret (appar­ently), but accord­ing to my research, if you exceed this secret amount you can get booted.

2. Face­book per­mits only 5000 friends (from my research). If you go over that a wait­ing list will be cre­ated. How­ever, they can always become a ‘fan’.

So do go out and pros­per at Face­book, but do keep this in mind.

Jan

From the title of my last blog post you would think I knew about “WeFol­low”, but I just bumped into this today.

I was on Face­book today and a poster men­tioned wefol­low so I decided to check out what it is.

WeFol­low is a Twit­ter direc­tory that has just been launched — still in beta they say.

You can reg­is­ter for free.

You fill in 3 tags that describes your inter­ests and peo­ple can find you. You can also find folks with sim­i­lar interests.

In your ‘What are you doing?’ box, type in @wefollow as the first thing you type, to bring it to their atten­tion. Then you type in a hash­tag — the # sym­bol, imme­di­ately fol­lowed by any key­word you want to be listed under.

Cur­rently there are no help pages on WeFol­low but if you want some good info on it check out Danny Sullivan’s post here:

http://searchengineland.com/wefollow-new-twitter-directory-16940

Check it WeFol­low here:

http://wefollow.com/

p.s. I added myself as web­de­signer, graph­ics­de­signer, entre­pre­neur
Come Fol­low

I came across an arti­cle on Twit­ter use and they had a link to a site that allows you to quickly see who is fol­low­ing you on Twit­ter and not fol­low­ing you back and visa versa. Thought you might be interested.

http://friendorfollow.com/

Happy Fri­day!

Jan