CropperCapture31 thumb You Can Keep Yourself Out Of Apps And Games Dashboard On Facebook: Only If You Are Sherlock Holmes To Discover These

I have all the praise for Facebook, from being the leading social network that has mashed up every aspect of networking into one platform to being a tool for brands to keep consumers occupied. But there is one thing I seriously dislike about it: it is so very secret. Secret about the most important issue: User Privacy.

How many of you have actually learnt about the social network introducing changes [be they good or ones that people retaliate to] on the site itself? I bet that number is confined to select few of the massive users it is swarmed with. And even that select group has come to know of it on blogs like ours and others. Alright, I understand it updates its own blog, but why the blog? It has the whole homepage to notify the users with, doesn’t it? But no, it just wont do that. Think of those privacy settings that users might still be unaware of at large, and I am not talking about the confusing settings for apps and the dashboard for notifications, but those associated to status updates. Seriously many of my friends have absolutely no idea what difference it would make if their status update is left open for everyone.

What I am simply trying to state here is the fact that the social network needs to adopt the same openness for  teaching its users about privacy settings much like it does with every other thing.

Presently they released a new setting update for its users regarding their activity on Applications and Games Dashboards. This as any other asks users to keep their settings open to all [Everyone] or limit the activity to Friends Only. Now I was just looking forward to see where did Facebook actually explain this and why knowing it is important? Nowhere. Which simply means you might not know that your activity is being viewed by your friends. And while it does let you exercise control over the games and applications dashboard, I still feel it lacking too much, not on the feature, but how little seriously it has taken the issue of educating its users.