A new study takes the saying “what you like says a lot about you” to a whole new level. Researchers from Cambridge University analyzed 58,000 Facebook profiles and found that a person’s Facebook Likes, which are public by default, are highly accurate in predicting personal, sometimes sensitive details about him or her. Simply analyzing a [...]
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LinkedIn Selling Your Resume? Going Public Is Changing How LinkedIn Uses Your Personal Info
LinkedIn has a new product that’s geared more towards building revenue than building relationships. It’s called Talent Pipeline, and it’s for job recruiters to go after “passive talent:” gifted potential employees who aren’t actively looking for jobs. As blogger Lauren Fisher notes on simplyzesty.com, it looks like LinkedIn is “moving more into being a network [...]
Announcing a new privacy feature: social button blocking
We’re excited to unveil a new privacy feature: social button blocking. Why block them? Read our post about how social buttons, like Google’s +1 and Facebook’s Like, track you even if you never click them. We realize that people want to share things: it’s a big part of what we do online, and it’s fun. [...]
How the new Facebook buttons are watching you
At f8, Facebook’s developer conference, they’ll be announcing a bunch of new buttons that will join the 905,000 websites that already use “Like” buttons. Now you’ll have “Read,” “Listened,” “Want,” and “Watched.” buttons. But did you know that social buttons track you at each site you visit, even if you never click on them? This [...]