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Facebook Aikajana (Timeline) pikakokeessa

Risto H. Kurppa — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:25:48 +0000

Facebook laittaa lähiaikona pakan sekaisin, isosti ja kaikille. Kaikkien profiilien sijalle tulee Timeline eli ‘Aikajana’ joka näyttää helposti selattavassa muodossa kaiken mitä olet Facebookiin syöttänyt.

Päivitys 03.10.2011 Julkaisua on venytetty oikeusjupinan takia. Jäämme odottamaan. Lisätietoa Mashablesta

Päivitys 19.10.2011 Timeline näyttäisi tulevan käyttöön lähipäivinä, kts TheNextWeb

Päivitys 16.12.2011 Nyt on tultu siihen pisteeseen että osoitteesta http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline alareunasta nappulaa painamalla saa timelinen aktivoitua kuka tahansa. Pakolliseksi se tulee joskus myöhemmin.

HUOM: Yksityisviestit eivät muutu julkisiksi. ~~Vierailemasi sivut eivät tule näkyviin kavereillesi tai muillekaan.~~ [EDIT: Tutustu 'seamless sharing' -ominaisuuteen täältä] MITÄÄN tietoa ei tämän muutoksen myötä muutu näkyväksi kavereillesi, jotka eivät jo olisi siihen tietoon päässeet käsiksi. Timelinen myötä vuosia vanhoihin statuksiin on vain helpompi päästä käsiksi. Ei ole siis MITÄÄN syytä paniikkiin!!

Kehittäjät voivat muuttaa profiilinsa Timelineksi etuajassa ja tutustua siihen. Tein näin ja tässä tarjoilen kuvakavalkadin siitä mitä tuleman pitää. Klikkaa ensimmäistä kuvaa niin näet kuvat isompana, pidempien kuvatekstien kera. Next -nappula kuvan alla vie seuraavaan kuvaan.

Laita tämä viesti jakoon kavereillesi jotta kun muutos tapahtuu kyyti ei olisi niin kylmää.

Muutos on valtava, se on selvä. Vasta ajan kanssa selviää miten siihen suhtautuu. Tuo on kieltämättä mahtava tapa esitellä elämäänsä, enemmän ja vähemmän tärkeitä tapahtumia, ystävilleen. Ensireaktioni oli kuitenkin että ‘liikaa tietoa minusta, liian helposti luettavissa’. On kuitenkin hyvä muistaa että mitään uutta tietoa ei ole paljastettu kenestäkään, kenellekään vaan samat näkyvyysasetukset ovat edelleen voimassa, mitkä ovat olleet aikaisemminkin. Ja timelinen sisällön saa viilattua haluamakseen eli edustavaksi.

Entinen profiili kertoi mitä olen tehnyt: kenen statuksia kommentoinut jnejne. Nyt se näkyy uudessa ‘tickerissä’ tai ‘uutisnauhassa’ ja profiili on muutettu toimimaan edustuskanavanasi.

Kokonaan jäi selvittämättä miten sovellukset tuohon pakettiin mahtuvat: missä nyt näkyy mikä Monkees olisin, minkäväriset alusvaatteet korostaisivat parhaiten luonnettani ja muut tärkeät testit. Entä mihin saan päivittäiset Roger Moore -lausahdukset?

Silti hieman hirvittää mihin tämä johtaa. Kuinka pitkään menee ennen kuin uutisoidaan ensimmäiset tapaukset joissa työhaastatteluissa on skannattu Facebookin timeline jotta saadaan muodostettua ihmisestä mahdollisimman hyvä kokonaiskäsitys. Rinnakkaiset timelinethan ovat jo olemassa: julkinen timelinesi näyttää erilaiselta kuin ystävillesi näkyvä. Kovin helppoa ei ole viilata esim. ‘ammatillista timelineasi’ mutta eiköhän tähänkin joku väline kohta keksitä..

Miltä vaikuttaa? Hirvittääkö vai onko lupaava uudistus? Mikä vaikuttaa parhaalta jutulta entä mikä on mennyt mielestäsi pieleen?

Mashable: How to Timeline(Opas Timelinen käyttöönottoon etuajassa)

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Bring your Facebook events to Google Calendar

Risto H. Kurppa — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:56:40 +0000

This is Ultimate Cool. Never thought about it before I saw the ‘export’ link in the bottom of an Facebook event page. You can make your Facebook events appear in your Google Calendar automatically.

Go to you Facebook Events page.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Export events’
In the popup window that opens, copy the address to the clipboard (right click -> copy). The address is something like webcal://www.facebook.com/ical/u.php?uid=numbers&key=things
Now go to your Google Calendar
At the left of the screen you have a list of your calendars. Click on the Add down arrow and select ‘Add by URL’
Paste the webcal:// address from your clipboard to the field
Press ‘Add Calendar’

Done. Now you see all your Facebook events in your Google Calendar.

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Facebook jakaa taas tietojasi

Risto H. Kurppa — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:34:15 +0000

Facebook meinaa antaa kolmannen osapuolen sovelluksille entistä vapaamman pääsyn käyttäjän tietoihin. Asentaessasi jonkun kivan pelin, saattaa se lukaista kotiosoitteesi ja puhelinnumerosi ja esimerkiksi laittaa tekstiviestispamia tulemaan. No eihän tämä käy päinsä.

Suositukseni: Poista puhelinnumerosi ja osoitteesi Facebookista. Nyt.

Poistaminen onnistuu tällä sivulla.

Lisäys: Jos tiedot on syöttänyt, tulevat ne näkyviin profiilin info (tiedot?) -sivulla, mutta tämänkin voi asetuksista estää näkymästä kavereille. On siis mahdollista syöttää osoite- ja puhelintiedot Facebookkiin, estää kavereita näkemästä niitä – mutta samalla jakaa ne itse kolmannen osapuolen sovelluksille.

Jaa että onko kukaan kavereistasi laittanut puhelinnumeroa Facebookkiin? Luultavasti useampi kuin arvaatkaan. Tarkasta täältä.

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Get what’s your own. Facebook data download test.

Risto H. Kurppa — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:40:52 +0000

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In October Facebook announced that they will make all user data downloadable. This means that you now can download a single .zip file with all your status updates, messages, photos and profile information. You own your information and now it’s possible to do something with it, not only give it all to Facebook!

Download window

As I had a closer look at what’s this about, I found out that this is actually a treasure you definitely want to get and keep!

How to download your Facebook data?

In Facebook, click Account, select Account Settings
Click on ‘Learn more’ next to ‘Download Your Information’
Press ‘Download’ button – after reading the warnings, right :)
Press the second ‘Download’ -button
It takes a while before Facebook prepares your data to be downloaded in a single compressed file. They will e-mail you a link to the download page
Click on the link you get in the e-mail
Type in your password
Click on ‘Download now’ and the download starts

Download button

What’s in the file?

My facebook-risto.kurppa.zip was around 16MB of size. You need to extract it to get access to the files.

html folder, size 9.1MB, 15 files
photos folder, size 6.9MB, folder for each photo album and full size .jpg photos
README.txt with a single line: Downloaded by Risto H. Kurppa (http://www.facebook.com/risto.kurppa) on December 4, 2010 at 9:59 pm
index.html – this is where you start the browsing. Open it with your web browser.

Downloaded file

When you open the index.html, you can see your profile, wall, photos, friends, notes, events and messages.

Profile

Profile

This lists everything about yourself you’ve submitted to facebook. In my case it shows my b-day, ‘about’, relationship status, e-mail address, facebook profile address, website, favorite quotations, groups and names of Facebook pages I like: music, movies and other
Only the facebook profile is a link. It’d be great to have links also on each of the pages and groups to be able to see what’s ‘Paul Fenwick’s Facebook Privacy Study’ group about.

Wall

Wall

This is your wall. It shows all your status updates and all wall posts from your friends (with their names, without their profile photos)
Hovering mouse cursor on the lock icon shows you what privacy settings (=friend lists) you have shared each item with
You can see how many have liked your statuses but you can’t see who they were
You see all comments from your friends.
It would be great to have each status linked to the original status at facebook.com
It’s actually spooky to read status updates from 3 years ago!

Photos

Shows each album: Cover image, name, amount of photos and time of creation
Opening an album shows each photo in a list format with date and comments.
Clicking on a photo opens the original .jpg file. This is great – regain your photos!
HTML source uses DIV classes: photo, comments, comment, time.

Friends

Just a plain list of names. No links, no lists.
HTML source: friend class in DIV

Notes

All notes on a single page in a clean format. Comments from your friends included.
RSS imported notes don’t have a link to the original source. Too bad.
HTML classes: note, time, notebody, comments, comment

Events

Events

List of events I’ve attended or planning to attend. Actually I think it also shows all ‘Maybe’ events.
Name of the event, who started it, when, where and description
Each event has a link to the original facebook.com event. GREAT!
HTML classes: event, page, time, description

Messages

Messages

All messages you’ve sent or received in a neat clean list format
Message threads are grouped together so it’s easy to follow discussion
Again no links to the original messages in facebook.com
HTML classes: thread, message, profile, time, msgbody, subject, message reply

Summary

So you have it all there easily readable. The HTML classes make it possible to parse the data to be used elsewhere too – maybe Diaspora will benefit from this somehow?

I don’t know what made Facebook allow people to do this but overall, it’s great it’s possible. No matter if Facebook dies, you will not loose everything you’ve written there. This is definitely something I want to leave to my children. It’ll be easy for them to see that in 2009 we still had snow to ski on or what was my first status update after our wedding. It’d be awesome to read status updates of my grand parents from, say 1940′s! I have received nor written almost no letters during last 5 years. Personal E-mails are also out. Having 2784 Facebook wall events from over 3 years is a treasure to me.

So make sure you backup your Facebook every now and then and store it in a safe place.

Thank you Facebook for this. Please add the links to the original messages, status updates etc.

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Reviewing my Facebook friend lists

Risto H. Kurppa — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:12:56 +0000

As a reaction to my previous post, step-by-step guide to Facebook privacy settings I though to actually check the settings for myself too and start by creating friend lists.

It seems to smarter create & control lists for people who you want to have access to something (include) than lists for people who you want to hide things from (exclude). This _should_ also be safer, as if you forget the whole thing when adding new friends, they won’t see anything but if the exclude lists were preferred, forgetting it would mean that your new friend sees everything.

Friend lists

At the moment I have 22 lists for my friends, and all the people belong to more than one list.

Context lists: I have lists for people based on where I’ve learned to know them and/or what’s their current context where I connect to them: family, extended family, church, school, work, hobbies, countries, I even have lists for cities where I’ve been living.

Lists for language: I have a FIN list for people who are OK with Finnish content (mostly this means people who are born or live in Finland), and a non-FIN list for those who prefer non-Finnish content meaning people I’ve learned to know abroad.

Access Control Lists: I now went through all my contacts, and to Keep It Simple, I created a Wall&Posts list that allows people to see things I post and also to see what others have written on my wall. That list doesn’t have very many people so don’t be offended if you can’t see much on my profile, you’re not alone. Then I also created a Private for people I want to let see more private things like – well, actually nothing more but birthday.

Configuration

Go to privacy overview page and click on ‘Customize settings’ button below the overview table.

Here’s the configuration as I have it:

Posts by me: Visible to Wall&Posts, hidden from non-FIN
Family: Visible Private
Relationships: Visible to Private
Interested in and looking for: Visible to Private
Bio and favorite quotations: Visible to Private
Website: Everyone
Religious and political views: Visible to Private
Birthday: Visible to Private
Places I check in to: Only Me
Include me in “People Here Now” after I check in: Not enabled

Photos and videos I’m tagged in: Only Me
Can comment on posts: Friends only
Friends can post on my Wall: Enable
Can see Wall posts by friends: Wall&Posts
Friends can check me in to Places: Disabled

Mobile phone: Only Me
Other phone: Only Me
Address: Only Me
IM screen name: Only Me
email@address.com: Friends Only

Testing

First I went to privacy overview page, clicked on ‘Customize settings’ button below the overview table. After this I clicked on the Preview My Profile button on top of the page.

I tried with three names who all were in exact same two lists. One of them was able to see much more than the other two. Well, I thought that maybe I didn’t have the settings for these people as I though I had and they some of them got the content I posted, others not. This actually doesn’t explain it as some of the things I’ve posted have been visible to ‘Everyone’.

Then I tried how this works by removing my wife (only temporarily, thanks for worrying) from Wall&Post list. That worked. Then I removed her from the Private list. For this change to take effect, it took around 10 minutes.

For the original settings to take effect again it took.. around 15 minutes.

I write shared two tests: a link visible to all my friends and a status visible to the Wall&Post list, hidden from non-FIN list.

They really didn’t work out. Out of those three people I used to test earlier, based on the profile preview only one is able to see the link I posted to Friends only. 12 hours later the situation is still the same.

Targeted sharing

Most of the things I post are in Finnish. I decided to stop bugging my non-Finnish friends and created the non-FIN list for them. By default they are excluded when I post something, but when I every now and then decide to post something in English, I click on the tiny lock next to the ‘Share’ button. Then I remove the non-FIN list from ‘Hide this from’ field. Sometimes I also can add the FIN there if for some reason I don’t want my Finnish friends to see it. For example wishing Merry Christmas I can do for all my non-FIN friends and then wish Hyvää Joulua for all of my FIN friends. Works well. And the same goes with the context lists, some news are interesting for people living in a specific city but not in another. Or something happening in our school might not interest someone who I met while taking the train to Siberia.

Summary

Things start to click slowly. The settings are spread all over the place, but if you get the ACLs (=Access Control Lists) well set up, it makes your life easier. And do remember that it takes some time for the settings to start working correctly – and my experience is that they actually won’t always start working at all as expected..

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Facebook privacy settings review 09/2010

Risto H. Kurppa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:00:27 +0000

I was asked to recap the current status of Facebook security settings. New features keep coming every now and then and the default privacy settings might not always please the users, this was the case with the recent ‘Places’ feature.

Taking control of your privacy in Facebook is a pain and takes a long time but that’s the price you must pay if you want to protect your privacy and still use Facebook.

The settings are spread all over the place and it’s not easy to have a clear overview of who’ll see what. But it’s still definitely worth the spent time to go through these settings, I’m sure you’ll find some surprises. I show here some example configuration but it’s best you think through what’s good for you.

As a rule of thumb: don’t put it in Facebook unless you’re OK everyone seeing it, or you’re sure that your settings are correct (but still there’s a change it’ll leak.. Sorry!)

Friend lists

Go to Friends page

If you haven’t already done this, create separate lists for our friends. This will allow you to later on decide more specifically who you want to share what.

You create new lists by clicking on the ‘Create new list’ button on top of the page.

SIMPLE: Create ‘DONTSHOW’ list where you list people you want still let be your friends, but do not want to show anything you do on facebook.

ADVANCED: Create lists for family, coworkers, friends, peopleyoureallydon’tknow and sort your people to these groups, and then create groups for people who you WANT to let see things you share, for example Show_statuses, Show_photos, Show_privateinformation

Now add the people to these lists. If you have hundreds of friends, it’s a pain, I know. Click on ‘All Connections’ on the left to show all friends and then click on the ‘Add to list’ button next to each name to add them to the lists.

General privacy settings

Go to privacy overview page. This shows who sees what in your profile. I think that none of these should be on ‘Everyone’ or ‘Friends of Friends’ as they might reveal your information to someone you have no idea of. So I recommend ‘Friends Only’ or Other, it’s your call. But here’s how to change the settings.

Click on ‘Customize settings’ button below the overview table.

Posts by me: Visible to Show_statuses
Family: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Relationships: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Interested in and looking for: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Bio and favorite quotations: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Website: Everyone
Religious and political views: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Birthday: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Places I check in to: Only Me
Include me in “People Here Now” after I check in: Not enabled

Photos and videos I’m tagged in: Only Me
Can comment on posts: Visible to Show_statuses
Friends can post on my Wall: Enable
Can see Wall posts by friends: Visible to Show_statuses
Friends can check me in to Places: Disabled

Mobile phone: Only Me
Other phone: Only Me
Address: Only Me
IM screen name: Only Me
email@address.com: Friends Only

I think it’s very important that you disable the ”Friends can check me in to Places” as it means that by going to a place, someone else is able tell all your Facebook friends that you’re there. That means anyone can check you in anywhere, no matter if you’ve been there or not. My guess is that location awareness in Facebook will grow fast with GPS enabled phones so it’s smart to be prepared.

Photos you’re tagged in – you might want to limit the changes that someone posts an unwanted photo of you in Facebook and tags you there letting your friends see it. That’s why Only Me is a good choice.

Review what you’ve typed in

Go to Edit profile page to remind yourself of what you’ve written there. I myself have the whole page empty except sex & birthday. However I only show month & day in the profile, not the year. Just to be on the safe side.

On the left you can go through your profile picture, relationships, likes&interests, education&work and contact information.

I don’t recommend you to share your education&work in Facebook, that’s what LinkedIn is for. Is it really needed to share that you go to dance every tuesday night from 6pm to 8pm and leave your home empty? Do you want to point out who’s your sister? Share your phone number. I personally don’t.

In the Likes&Interests page you can drag&drop some of the liked pages to be hidden (as in not shown by default, unless the used clicks at ‘see more’ link).

Wall

The checkbox to allow/disallow your friends to post on your wall can be found in your profile page. Below the ‘What’s in your mind?’ textbox and ‘Share’ button is a small Options link. Click it. Now it changes to ‘Settings’. Click it.

Three options you should be interested in:

Posting ability: Friends may post to my Wall
Who can see posts made by friends: Visible to Show_statuses (or Friends only)
Combine posts: Show posts from friends in the default view disabled

Writing status

Now you could write a new status, for example ‘going through Facebook privacy settings’. But before you click on ‘Share’, try the small lock icon next to the Share button. It allows you to select who sees the status. Everyone, Friends, Friends of Friends or custom. If you select Custom, you can set lists of friends (for example Family, Coworkers etc.. ) or individual friends who you want to show this status, or you can also let everyone else see it except the people in the ‘DONTSHOW’ -list, if that’s what you’ve created. Sometimes this is a very useful feature.

Photos

Go to Photos privacy page to control who has access to your existing photo albums.

Directory information

Go again to privacy overview page. Under the ‘Basic Directory Information’, click on ‘View Settings’. This page now shows you who is able to see that you’re in Facebook and so on.

My settings:

Search me on Facebook: Everyone
Send me friend requests: Everyone
Send me messages: Everyone
See my friend list: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX
See my education and work: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX
See my current city and hometown: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX
See my interests and other Pages: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX

(where ListX is one or more lists I don’t want to show this information)

Applications

Go again to privacy overview page. On top right, ‘Applications and Websites’ section, click on ‘Edit your settings’.

This takes you to page where you see what applications you are using currently. I have 6, and as I’m writing this, I actually removed one so five is left. I bet you have more – they’re VERY EASY to install, it’s enough to click a link on your feed to see what your friend answered on a poll or so on. However here you can remove or turn off apps you don’t want to use.

Game and application activity: Only Me
Info accessible through your friends: All 18 checkboxes unchecked
Instant personalization: Not enabled
Public search: Not enabled

Applications, part II

That’s not all the fun with applications. Go to Application settings (yes, this is different from the application setting page above..). Here you find list of apps that you have recently used. I have the usual stuff there, Events, groups, links, notes, photos, videos, gifts.

By clicking on ‘Edit Settings’ next to each app you can decide who sees your links, events, notes and so on. You might want to limit some of these, my guess is that they’re all shown to at least all your friends if not also to friends of friends.

Block list

Once again go to privacy overview page and select ‘Edit your lists’ in ‘Block list’ section.

Here you can block other users if you don’t want to hear anything about any more (in Facebook, that is ;), you don’t want to get any application invites from or you don’t want to get any event invitations. Also here is a list of applications you have blocked – I have 52 applications listed..

Preview your profile

Do you want to see how does your profile look like to a friend of yours? Go to
privacy overview page, click on ‘View Settings’ (near Basic Directory Information), click on Preview My Profile. The same button is available also in privacy overview page -> customize settings page or you can also try this direct link.

Now you see your profile and by typing a friends name in the text box on top, you see what parts of your profile are visible to him/her.

Remember seeing ads telling that a friend of yours likes Britney Spears and suggestion that maybe you like her too? Would you want your name to be used to advertise something that you liked, for example Finnish Sauna? Didn’t think so either.

Go to Facebook Ads page and set this:

Allow ads on platform pages to show my information to: No one (click Save Changes)
Show my social actions in Facebook Ads to: No one (click Save Changes)

Notifications

You might still want to have a look at the notification settings, basically when do you want Facebook to send you a SMS or E-mail. You can do this at Notifications page

Remarks & Summary

When someone is waiting to become your friend, depending on your settings, he’s able to see when you make new friends. If your status settings are loose enough, your statuses will be shown on his feed even if you haven’t accepted his request. Someone reported that this actually is the case even if your statuses are not public so watch out..

As you see it’s not easy to find all the settings as they’re spread all over the place. Every time you post or do something in Facebook you might want to remind yourself about the privacy issues.

Diaspora

Diaspora will very soon be a ‘New Facebook’: The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. I’m hoping it to come and grow big and allow us to have full control. Read more at http://www.joindiaspora.com/

Your experiences?

Did I miss something? Please let me know and I’ll add it here. Did some of the sharing settings surprise you or did you have everything in place already? What do you think of Facebook privacy, do you trust it?

ps. Now it’s your time to click here to share this post with your friends and help them to in finding suitable privacy settings for them! Thank you!!

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Risto H. Kurppa — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:29:36 +0000

Facebook on aidosti hyvä peli yhteydenpitoon ystävien kanssa. On mukava nähdä vilauksia ystävien arjesta, pystyä heittämään omia ajatuksia niihin sekaan. Facebookin käyttö vaatii käytännössä käymistä Facebook.com -sivulla, jotta näet ystävien viestit, pystyt niihin vastailemaan ja pystyt käyttämään muita Facebookin ominaisuuksia. Joitain mobiilisovelluksia on myös tarjolla mutta ne ovat käsittääkseni kaikki rajoittuneita ominaisuuksien puolesta.

Facebookin juttu on tosiaan ajatusten jakaminen, mutta myös sisällön jakaminen. Sinne voi puskea kaikenlaisia linkkejä, videoita, viestejä, mitä netistä löytää ja ystävät voivat niitä kommentoida. Helmikuussa paljastettu Google Buzz toimii samalla alueella, katsotaan miten käy, onko siitä kilpailijaksi.

Facebook on käsittääkseni kautta aikain eniten (rekisteröityneitä?) käyttäjiä kerännyt palvelu netissä. Käytännössä tämä tarkoittaa että sieltä löytyy paljon tuttuja jokaiselle. Tilastot näyttävät kohdallani 433 ystävää. Tuntuu paljolta. Olen kuitenkin jokaisen näiden kanssa keskustellut jossain vaiheessa henkilökohtaisesti, ja koen että pystyisin kohdatessani mennä kaikkien näiden kanssa juttelemaan myös oikeassa elämässä. Olen luokitellut ystäväni n. 20 eri ryhmään riippuen kontekstista, mistä heidät tunnen. Näin pystyn kohdistamaan statuspäivityksiäni paremmin tietyille ihmisille sen mukaan miten arvioin heitä asian kiinnostavan ja vastaavasti kenelle koen haluavani kertoa jotain asioita.

Olen myös rajannut profiilini näkyvyyttä sen perusteella, mitä haluan itsestäni jakaa kenellekin. Jotta muiden ihmisten statuspäivitystulva pysyisi kohtuullisena, olen piilottanut joidenkin ystävieni statuspäivitykset seinältäni. Tämä ei tarkoita ettenkö haluaisi tietää mitä heille kuuluu ja mitä puuhaavat, vaan kohtaan oman rajallisen kapasiteettini. Haluan seurata tarkemmin läheisten ihmisten tekemisiä kuin nopeasti silmäillen kaikkien mahdollisten. Lukumääräisesti raja on veteen piirretty mutta jonkinlaista osviittaa ehkä antanee seuraava Hesarin juttu: Aivot käsittävät 150 Facebook -kaveria.

Muistaako joku vielä Facebookin ’causes’? Niiden avulla pystyi jotenkin lahjoittamaan rahaa juttuihin. Käsittääkseni se on aika lailla kuollut ja kuopattu. Tilalle – tai rinnalle, ihan miten vain, on noussut ‘Pages’ – sivut. Niistä olen kirjoitellut enemmän Johdatuksessa Facebookin sivuihin ja ryhmiin. Alun perin sivut olivat ‘statementteja’, kannanottoja. Fanittamalla bändiä halusin kertoa maailmalle, että bändi on jees. Fanittamalla maitoa halusin kertoa että tykkään maidosta. Näiden sivujen ylläpitäjillä on mahdollisuus puskea minullepäin uutisia ja päivityksiä. Itselleni näistä päivityksistä on tullut syy liittyä jonkin faniksi. Ei siksi, että haluaisin muille kertoa että tämä on hyvä juttu vaan siksi, jotta pystyisin seuraamaan tapahtumia. En ole Matti Vanhasen fani siksi, että Matti olisi mielestäni hyvä jätkä (en ota tähän tälläkään postauksella kantaa) vaan siksi, että mielestäni on hienoa ja kannatettavaa että yksittäiset poliitikot astuvat esiin myös netissä, ja toisaalta pääministeritason juttuja voi olla ihan mielenkiintoista nähdä muualtakin kuin lehtien (juoru)palstoilta. Toivoisin siis että Facebookin sivuja voisi piilottaa näkymästä profiilissa. Ne ovat minulle tiedonhankitakanava, ei kannanotto.

Tiedon tarjoajien, sivujen ylläpitäjien jne kannattaa lukaista esimerkiksi seuraavat jutut:

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Mikstuura sosiaalista mediaa, osa 1: Esittely

Risto H. Kurppa — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:19:06 +0000

Sosiaalinen media on nykypäivän netti. Se ei ole ilmiö tai väline, se on jotain laajempaa. Wikipedia määrittelee sosiaalista mediaa seuraavasti:

Sosiaalinen media on prosessi, jossa yksilöt ja ryhmät rakentavat yhteisiä merkityksiä sisältöjen, yhteisöjen ja verkkoteknologioiden avulla. Tämä yksinkertaistettu määritelmä perustuu seuraavaan formaalimpaan määritelmään: Sosiaalinen media on teknologiasidonnainen ja rakenteinen prosessi, jossa yksilöt ja ryhmät rakentavat yhteisiä merkityksiä sisältöjen, yhteisöjen ja verkkoteknologioiden avulla vertais- ja käyttötuotannon kautta. Samalla sosiaalinen media on jälkiteollinen ilmiö, jolla on tuotanto- ja jakelurakenteen muutoksen takia vaikutuksia yhteiskuntaan, talouteen ja kulttuuriin.

Vaikutuksia yhteiskuntaan, talouteen ja kulttuuriin. Ei paha! Ajattelin pienen juttusarjan avulla hieman kuvata omaa mikstuuraani, joka siis sisältää sosiaalista mediaa sekä erilaisia nettiä hyödyntäviä kommunikointityökaluja ja sensellaista. Tulossa on juttua ainakin seuraavista aiheista:

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Verkkosyötteet (RSS, Atom)
Facebook
Mikroblogit (Jaiku, Qaiku, identi.ca, Twitter)
IRC
Pikaviestimet (Jabber, Gmail chat, Facebook chat)

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Risto H. Kurppa — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:59:06 +0000

Yes, it’s true & great news: Facebook chat can now be used over any XMPP / Jabber client, like Pidgin and Kopete.

Go to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php to see your settings. Here’s a screenshot of the settings:

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Risto H. Kurppa — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:23:01 +0000

THIS IS OUTDATED, CHECK THE 09/2010 STATUS HERE

Facebook introduced some new privacy tools mid-December. Some of these changes are not positive only.

Also many users have no idea about what parts of their profile they share to their friends, the world or friends of friends.

We decided to write some instructions for you to go through to protect your privacy and keep on using Facebook, in the safe way.

CREATE FRIEND LISTS

First, let’s create create lists of your friends, for example ‘School friends’, ‘Work mates’ and so on to ease the privacy management. Go to ‘Friends‘ view to create and edit lists. You can add each of your friend to multiple lists.

From privacy point of view, you want to create at least ‘Limited Profile‘ list and add the friends from who you want to limit access to your profile.

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION FROM APPLICATIONS YOUR FRIENDS USE

By default the Facebook applications (=games, quizzes, …) your friends use can see A LOT of information about you. This information can be used even to distribute viruses and malware. You should (yes, you really should!) limit the applications’ access to your profile. Go to Settings - > Privacy Settings -> Applications and Websites -> What your friends can share about you -> Edit Settings (link) to select what to share.

PROTECTING YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE WORLD

Friends are now, according to Facebook, “public information” and not controlled by any privacy option! This means that not only your friends, but anyone landing on your site, no matter if they’re registered to Facebook or not, can see who’s your friend.

There is still one way to hide the friend list from the rest of the world: select the pen icon besides Friends box on your profile page, and uncheck “Show my friends on my profile“.

It’s not any more possible to hide the list of your friends from specific friends, so in practice you need to remove such friends you don’t want to let have access to that information.

HIDE YOUR PROFILE FROM GOOGLE & OTHER SEARCH ENGINES

Uncheck “Allow Indexing” under Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Search. Your profile can still be found inside Facebook, but the Facebook profile page will not be the first thing Google lists about you. Here you also can decide if Facebook search finds your profile.

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION & SUBMITTED CONTENT

After creating the required friend lists, go to Settings - > Privacy Settings -> Profile information (URL). Here you can select who sees the posts and comments on your wall and details of your personal profile and so on. To enable the settings, click ‘Change settings’ on top and type in your password.

For example, click on the button on the ‘Religious and Political Views‘ row. Then click ‘Custom‘. Now in the dialog that pops open select ‘Only Friends‘ in the ‘Make this visible to‘ -field. Add the ‘Limited Profile‘ list under ‘Hide this from‘. Back on the privacy page it will now read “Only Friends; Except: Limited Profile”.

See Settings -> Privacy settings -> Contact information (URL) to adjust what parts of your contact information you want to show to your friends & the world.

A very handy tool to check what parts of you profile page are shown to a friend of you is Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Contact Information -> Preview My Profile. Now you can type in the name of a friend to see your profile with his eyes.

WHO SEES YOUR SUBMITTED CONTENT

Each status message, link, photo and video you post now has a selection on how public it will be (the small lock icon). Here also you might want to make sure that ‘Friends only’ is the default setting and maybe hide the posts from ‘Limited profile’ list.

Also each Photo Album has its own privacy settings. You might want to check that you share the photos to ‘Friends only’.

Also do remember that these will be available for EVERYONE, and there’s nothing you can do about it: Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friends, or Pages – so make it’s something you are OK to publish. (Source)

APPLICATION PRIVACY SETTINGS

For each application you’ve installed (including Events, Notes, Groups..), you can decide what they’re allowed to do. The settings are not easy to understand, but still, do go to Application settings.

PROFESSIONAL VIEW / SECOND OPINION

Paul Fenwick, a Facebook security specialist has written an extensive analysis about the new privacy tools. Check his blog post for more information and also join his security study group. Here are some of his recommendations:

Go to your profile page. Scroll down until you see Recent Activity. Anything you don’t want to see there, delete it now. Any time you join a group, or like an event, or fan a page, or change your relationship status, or sneeze, go back to Recent Activity and check if you’re happy with that being broadcasted.

Go through all the new privacy settings, and think about each one. Some of them may not have even been mentioned in the migration tool. My date of birth had unexpectedly went from being completely private to completely public.

REFERENCES

Facebook blog explains the new privacy tools

AUTHORS

Risto H. Kurppa
Timo Jyrinki

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