There has been many speculations about the new Facebook mobile app update. This is by far the worse scenario. In fact I don't believe anyone would have anticipated anything like that.
At this point we can only hope that this is incorrect. Here's the article.
Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will
let it listen to our conversations through our own phones’ microphone. Talk about a Big Brother move.
Facebook says the feature will be used for harmless things, like
identifying the song or TV show playing in the background, but it
actually has the ability to listen to everything -- including your
private conservations -- and store it indefinitely.
Not only is this move just downright creepy, it’s also a massive threat to our privacy.
This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized for breaching
our right to privacy, and it’s hoping this feature will fly under the
radar. No such luck for Facebook. If we act now, we can stop Facebook in
its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature.
Tell Facebook not to release its creepy and dangerous new app feature that listens to users’ conversations.
Facebook says it'll be responsible with this feature, but we know we can't trust it.
After all, just a few months ago Facebook came under fire for receiving
millions of dollars for working with the National Security Agency’s
PRISM, a wide-scale and highly controversial public electronic data
surveillance program -- something its CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially
denied. This is also the company that lied about its now-scuttered
Beacon program -- an advertisement system that sent our “private” data
from external websites to Facebook.
It seems like every few months, there's another big Facebook privacy
scandal, and yet the social media giant is pushing this new app anyway.
Why? The information it gathers by listening to its 1.2 billion
users worldwide can be sold for huge profits to advertisers and
corporations looking for better information on consumer tastes and preferences.
Facebook is acting in the best interests of its bank account, not its users. This has gone too far - we have to stop it now.
Facebook: This is an extreme invasion of your users’ privacy.
Do not release this new feature, and do not listen to us through our
phones’ microphones.
Source: Here
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Another winning strategy for Coca Cola
What a brilliant way to promote communication. I have always admired Coca Cola's ability to innovate and bring new concept to the table. This is another amazing example.
Coca cola and how to use Social Media effectively, in this ad they provided free coke which helped freshmen in college break the ice and also promoted their brand as this video has already been shared umpteenth times on each social media platform and will continue because this is truly genius.
You can say what you will about Coca Cola but this is the reason why they are and will remain number 1.
Friday, 23 May 2014
Facebook Lets Restaurants Post Menus to Their Pages
IMAGE: MASHABLE, CHRISTINA ASCANI
Aiming to keep users on the platform and possibly prompt more ads, Facebook started letting restaurants post menus on their Facebook pages on Thursday.
The social networking giant is using Constant Contact's SinglePlatform, an online listing service that helps local businesses showcase products, photos and menus. The program is only available right now in the U.S. and Canada, though if your business is outside those countries, you can upload a PDF of your menu via "page info" under "settings."
While a restaurant could conceivably accomplish the same thing by posting a photo of its menu on its Page, Facebook's move could pave the way for direct ordering from restaurants.
You can't click through to make an order, but that seems like a logical future addition. Facebook signaled its interest in connecting users to restaurants last year when it partnered with OpenTable to let users make dinner reservations without leaving their News Feeds.
IMAGE: FACEBOOK
If restaurants exploit the feature en masse, the biggest loser will likely be Yelp, which makes menus a regular component of its reviews. Tapping the technology behind Facebook's recent Nearby Friends geolocations feature and integration with Facebook's Graph Search could also make this a useful addition down the road for Facebook users and a possible substitute or addition to Yelp.
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