Facebook to share user data with Instagram

[Jazzy]

Facebook included the change in a proposed update to its hefty data usage document, which said that data from our affiliates or our advertising partners, would be used to tell us information about you and improve the quality of ads.



Instagram, a photo-sharing service for smartphone users, is one of Facebook's most significant affiliates, and was acquired by the social network in October for around $715 million (£448 million).



The change will allow Facebook to build more complete profiles of its users - and target advertisements - using people's personal data from its social network and from Instagram.



Facebook has more than a billion registered users and Instagram counts 100 million devotees who use the app's distinctive filters to take photographs from their phones which then appear on a public feed.



The social network also wants to loosen the restrictions on how members of the social network can contact other members using the Facebook email system, eliminating a setting for users to control who can contact them.



The company said it planned to replace the Who can send you Facebook messages setting with new filters for managing incoming messages.



Asked whether such a change could leave Facebook users exposed to a flood of unwanted, spam-like messages, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said that the company carefully monitors user interaction and feedback to find ways to enhance the user experience.

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Question: If you're a Facebook user, how do you feel about these changes?

 

[DrLeftover]

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[Jazzy]

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Thank you very much!

 

[Raven]

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Will actually have a look at this when I get home, as all these 'privacy' changes are making me want to close my account.

 

[Jazzy]

I did it and it was just one click and it was done!

 

[Sinon]

To be honest, I don't really get all the anger about this sort of thing. I mean... It's a social network. If you join one and then complain that your information is visible to other people, then I've got no time for you, you're too stupid to even breathe. Especially with Facebook, you have total control over the information you provide. You don't have to add your work details, you don't have to add your home address, you don't have to add your phone number. You don't even have to add your real name. So I really cannot fathom why people get up in arms that Facebook (reminder: A FREE SERVICE) is using the details you (THE USER) provide in order to make some money. Especially when all it is, is an advertisement service which can be seen on many websites, as a large amount of ads are cookie-based (personal files stored in your web browser, such as searches, passwords, usernames etc)



It seems silly to get so irate about something that's so simple.