Developer Oracles » social networking http://devoracles.com Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Democracy at Facebook http://devoracles.com/democracy-at-facebook/1049 http://devoracles.com/democracy-at-facebook/1049#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:00:00 +0000 Gary Illyes http://devoracles.com/?p=1049
Facebook decided to let its users play a “meaningful role” in deciding the policies governing the service.
The decision is part of the social network mogul’s back-off strategy, as the policy changes from February, 2009 when Facebook silently changed its data-handling policies, revolted the vast majority of the users.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder reassured the social network’s users that not the service owns the users’ information stored on the servers, but the users themselves. It also stated that people will have the ability to opt-out from features like “beacons”, feeds which shares the shopping habits of the users with 3rd parties and will also have the ability to effectively vote whether they like a policy or not.

The step taken can be the beginning of an next-level relation between online corporations and their users.

Source – AP

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