Facebook’s New Plugin Offers a Better Way to Control Privacy
From the day Facebook emerged in the online world, it has been a victim of Privacy issues
that has affected many of its users, if not professionally, then
personally for sure! It has been seen that a normal user with less or no
security knowledge often considers placing privacy on Photos and
Videos, as the only measure to protect his account. However, the reality
is different. The applications that you use on Facebook can access all
your data and can use it anyway the developer wants. Not only has this,
but the content that you share from different sites on your Facebook
Page also somehow become an important factor in violating the security
of your account
The New Plugin!
Ensuring a complete security been provided to its
users, Facebook has now introduced a “Shared Activity” Plug-in that will
help people in controlling the activities they share to Facebook
Directly from their Web application. This plug-in has been found really
effective in terms of controlling open Graph Built-in Actions. From the
plugin on sites such as Airbnb
(a good example to be used here), people can set the default Facebook
audience for activity shared from your app, or manage the settings for
stories previously published to Facebook, including selecting an
audience or removing it altogether.
What’s New in “Shared Activity” Plugin?
To make it easier to understand, This Shared Activity
plug-in actually list your activities that are published from your
applications to Facebook, like Open Graph activities, as stated above,
as well as the comment plug-in activities, the like button stories and
lot more. This means that now you have all the rights to modify the
privacy settings of the activities, like listening songs, playing games,
etc. by this plug-in. Similarly, if a person, through a travel app,
likes a restaurant or reviews a hotel, and decides that these activities
should only be viewable to a select group on friends on Facebook, he
can control this within the plug-in as well.
Why To Use This Plugin?
Do you hate to modify privacy settings for your
activities, each time your activities get published on your Facebook? NO
doubts about it. Using this Shared activity plug-in saves your time by
giving you an instant control on your privacy settings for your
activities. It provides an easy way to configure the privacy settings on
an individual level while removing unwanted activities that are shared
back to Facebook.
Facebook is coming up with some magnificent
improvements each day to keep its users happy with this social media
when the online world is all full of competitions in the Social
Networking world. Let’s see what next comes from the Facebook Team to
make things better, simpler and effective.
Happy Facebooking!
