By Jessica Guynn, McClatchy-Tribune News Service:
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc. recently announced a bunch of new features that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said would allow for "frictionless sharing."
Now you don’t have to "like" something to share it. A new breed of applications will tell your friends what you read, listen to and watch - because when you sign up for them, that’s what you give them permission to do.
As far as seismic visions for the Web, this is one of the big ones. Think about it: Everything you do online, shared automatically. And Facebook keeps a running log of it all.
Of course, that means some people will feel they have too little privacy. It also means Facebook will collect even more personal information and potentially make tons of money from it.
And, like it or not, none of that is going to change anytime soon. Despite the snarky comments and complaints, Facebook - with its 800 million users - is still as popular as ever: On a single day recently, 500 million people logged in to Facebook, Zuckerberg noted last month at the company’s annual developers conference in San Francisco.
But there are ways to opt out of Facebook’s share-it-all revolution...Read here.
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