The Internet's largest social network site, Facebook, now wants to take you across the web with your friends and show you their activity on other websites.
According to an article on the NY Times website on Nov. 30, the site is offering a new feature called Facebook Connect which "allows its members to log onto other Web sites using their Facebook identification and see their friends’ activities on those sites." FB Connect will also allow members to broadcast what they are doing on those sites and where they are going on them to their friends. To promote this many sites that want a "social web" will become partners with Facebook and users information will be shared with these other sites.
Many of us probably joined Facebook as a way to keep in touch with friends and chat with people we know over the Internet, but now FB is expanding in a way that will broadcast our information very freely over the Internet. Although an example of how FB Connect will work sounds cool - "For example, a person might alert his Facebook friends to the fact that he is watching a video on CBS.com and invite them to join him there to watch together and discuss the video as it plays" - the idea of people knowing everything that I do on the Internet does not exactly sound appealing to me. Do you think this is a big issue of privacy?
Read the full article for more in-depth info about this Facebook update on NY Times.com
- Jessica I.
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