Facebook continues to make usability of its platform a bit easier. Especially when it comes to user allowing apps across the platform. The social network today rolled out permissions model for third party applications, which would now make it necessary for these apps to specify what data they require the user to share. This isn’t something absolutely new, as it had been in tests since last year.
This is quite a needed move given that earlier these apps requested to share user data and never specified to what extent could this be used. All that users had to do was simply click through on Yes in order to make use of the application. With this current update, users will now be displayed a dialog box that specifies what private data of theirs will be shared or used by the application. This includes your photos, videos, etc. In my opinion it is a much needed improvement, since I hated using any application for they spammed the messages as well as sending rubbish promotions to friends. More importantly I don’t trust these apps.
Over all, the social network has been quite serious in responding to user worries associated to privacy and sharing of their data with third parties. Of course this isn’t yet enough to put a lock on anti-Facebook folks out there. We should be thankful that at least Mark Zuckerberg is taking those baby steps towards a better People’s network.
via Facebook Blog
