Facebook Altering User Profiles

This last week, Facebook moved to provide “Instant Personalization” on partner Web sites, like Yelp, Microsoft Docs and Pandora. This  stirred privacy concerns once again for Facebook users. But a related change is also being received poorly by users.

Facebook also began altering users’ profiles by asking them if they wanted to link information like current city, hometown, school and workplace history, and likes and interests to related Facebook Pages. The move could to push many Facebook users away from stricter privacy settings selected previously, since Facebook considers “connections” to Pages public information.

There have been thousands of complaints on the Facebook blog postprotest page created by users. The complaint is about the weakening privacy and continuing commercialism on Facebook. explaining the changes and on a 

This change has infuriated many users by deleting text they had entered about themselves in their profile. The ‘connections’ change Users allow the links to be made by the "Connections" modification without realizing their profiles will be extensively altered and their text deleted. But, there is a way to change these connections.

The Bottom Line:

Users can disconnect from a Page any time by visiting the Page and selecting “Unlike” on the bottom left or by clicking the pencil “Edit Information” icon in the Info section of their profile page, selecting “Page” and then clicking “Remove” underneath the photo. While editing a profile, users can also highlight certain connections by dragging and dropping the given Page above the fold and de-emphasize others by dragging and dropping them below the fold.

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