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Today, Facebook.com introduced new privacy settings for all users with their “feeds” feature and Mark Zuckerberg wrote an open letter to the community.
To say the least…
THANK YOU FACEBOOK! We greatly appreciate the new level of user options and privacy controls that you’ve introduced today. You listened to the voices of your users and really helped […]

That’s right folks, you read the headline correctly! Changes are coming and it’s been confirmed by The Washington Post, Business Week and USA Today. It looks as if these three major news sources are reporting that changes to Facebook.com will be happening today (Friday) and that Mark Zuckerberg will be issuing an apology to the […]

The petition now has more than 100,000 signatures.
A sincere thank you to everyone who has supported this movement to change the way Facebook.com uses “feeds” on its Web site. Without every single one of your signatures, this would have never happened.
It’s very possible that by Friday we’ll see some privacy settings for the […]

The Associated Press’ latest story has an interview with Facebook.com creator Mark Zuckerberg, who for the first time gave users a glimmer of hope for upcoming changes to the “feeds”:
Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said Thursday that privacy remains central to the site, but he acknowledged the company misstepped and “failed to communicate to our […]

I received this information in an AIM message and I thought I would pass it along to you. It’s a browser toolbar bookmarklet and it will let you kill your mini-feed with just the click of a button.
Check it out: Facebook News Feed Killer
Now, it will only kill your mini-feed, not the feeds of your […]

Well, I went through Google News and rounded-up all the coverage that Facebook.com’s “feeds” have been generating. The MSM coverage is perhaps even greater, as the wire report stories from Bloomberg and Reuters are being picked up by other newspapers and Web sites. I also got an AIM message today telling me that CNBC mentioned […]

The Wall Street Journal has done an article about the protests against Facebook.com’s “feeds.”
“We didn’t expect so much negative feedback,” Facebook spokeswoman Melanie Deitch said yesterday. “It’s a busy day over here.”
The new features do allow users to hide specific actions from specific users by changing certain privacy options. “I don’t believe there’s a privacy […]

UPDATE: WIRED now has a more formal story on the Facebook.com “feeds.”
WIRED.com’s Monkey Bites interviewed me earlier today. Check out the interview and a thanks to Michael Calore for blogging about this issue.
There’s been media requests from other mainstream and college newspaper outlets as well, and we’ll post those stories here once new stories on […]

Widespread outrage over new Facebook.com features
Students flock to sign petition for immediate change at popular social networking Web site
Media Contacts:
Kiyoshi Martinez: kiyoshimartinez@gmail.com
Jeremy Pelzer: jeremypelzer@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 6, 2006
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The recent addition of “news feeds” on the popular social networking Web site Facebook.com has sparked unprecedented outrage and concern among the site’s 9 million […]

These particular Web sites have come to my attention and we encouarge you to take a look at them to see what else you can do to help Save Facebook:
–>Stop it, Facebook!
–>A Day Without Facebook
If there are other Web sites out there, please let us know and we’ll update this post.
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