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Facebook Friendship Pages to make your interactions with friends more visible
At first glance, Friendship Pages don't sound like they could affect your privacy on Facebook. All of the information they collect is currently available to your Facebook contacts, so these pages won't expose anything new. What they will do, however, is make certain friendships visible in a way they weren't before. As Marshall Kirkpatrick points out at ReadWriteWeb, covert friendships and even secret relationships that would have normally been lost in the shuffle of your friends' busy Facebook walls will be all too visible on a Friendship Page.
Facebook, on the other hand, is framing these pages as "telling the story of friendship," and furthering the company's mission of connecting friends. Wayne Kao, the creator of Friendship Pages, says they're designed to bring out the human side of Facebook and bring back memories you've shared with friends.
[via Switched]
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Subscribe to commentsAemonyOct 28th 2010 11:48PM
This sounds interesting. If you use Facebook more as an online forum or discussion board this kind of features are awesome as more people might feel inclined to pitch in to you and your friend's discussion.
All negativity towards FB really comes down to what you share and to whom. As soon as you have set up measures towards restricting access against those you don't want FB turns out to be a really great site. Since nobody cares about the smallest things in my private life I don't post about them either. I see FB as a kid who wants to get a big slice of your cake that is your life. But I only give him a small piece occasionally and more than often I treat the service as a personal blog of some sort, throwing my ideas and thoughts towards my friends and asking them to pitch in.
So I'm all for the new friendship pages. All it does is making stuff already there easily found, if that's the case you are to blame and not FB, after all you can easily control who has the ability to read your posts or not.
arie.gere144Oct 29th 2010 4:36AM
good news
JoeNov 2nd 2010 2:33PM
I'm going to put aside the privacy issues on this one. As a general rule, if Facebook (or any social networking site) introduces a new feature, it's probably one that will make sharing or accessing information easier. If that's the case, it will obviously have privacy implications. However, as it's been said many times before (including in this post by the first commenter, Aemony), Facebook is only as good as the information you give them. If you give them more information, they will use that information. Generally, it's for their good, sometimes it's for yours. If you're that concerned about privacy, you shouldn't be using Facebook.
On topic: this feature is actually pretty interesting, and I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled across it yesterday. It basically feels like an expanded form of "wall-to-wall," and far more useful. It's not displaying anything to anyone that couldn't already read it, and it's no more or less dangerous, in my opinion, then when they introduced the wall (and I recall there being much outrage about that at the time).