Facebook is updating its website to highlight pages for bands, books and businesses, encouraging users to become fans of their listed interests. The social network is also launching a new community feature, as the social network looks for new ways to leverage their users’ interests and connect them with advertisers. From this week, Facebook will […]
Facebook is updating its website to highlight pages for bands, books and businesses, encouraging users to become fans of their listed interests. The social network is also launching a new community feature, as the social network looks for new ways to leverage their users’ interests and connect them with advertisers.
From this week, Facebook will prompt users to join the fan pages of their listed interests. If they opt in, users will still be able to hide this connection on their profile, but their name will still be listed one the “people who like this” on the fan page. This feature will also be used for users’ home towns, education and work places.
20/04/2010
In addition, Facebook is rolling out ‘community pages’, which will consist of the Wikipedia entry on the topic, along with Facebook posts from friends and others discussing it.
The page collects and displays posts by Facebook users mentioning cooking.
Users will see posts from their friends and from strangers who haven’t restricted public access to their updates.
Facebook is also adding some privacy controls so that users’ friends can’t see the list of other friends they have.
Under a new section called “friends, tags and connections,” users will be able to limit who can see what on their profile.
Facebook had taken away this option with its overhaul of privacy settings in December, but users and privacy advocates have been asking for it back.
