Facebook made lots of headlines a few months ago when people discovered that their news feeds had been manipulated for research purposes. Many people were shocked that they’d been unwitting participants in massive social science studies. But similar research at Facebook has also been used to help the company to determine how to best help customers deal with unwanted posts. This Radiolab program explores the light and dark sides of Facebook’s gigantic social engineering projects.
8.7 Social Networks
Two Faces of Facebook’s Social Engineering
March 1, 2015
in -Cross Currents, 8.7 Social Networks, 9.1 Inside the Internet, 9.3 Internet Issues: Ethical and Political Dilemmas

Android Phones Show a New Face(book)
April 5, 2013
in -Updates, 1.0 Creating Communities on the Living Web, 13.3 E-Business 2.0: Reinventing Web Commerce, 4.3 System Software: The Hardware-Software Connection, 4.4 The User Interface: The Human-Machine Connection, 8.7 Social Networks
Rumors of a Facebook phone have rattled around the tech world for quite a while. Today Facebook announced not a a phone, but software that can convert many Android phones into Facebook machines. Facebook is available in app form on most smart phones. But the new Facebook Home software will replace the Android home screen with a Facebook-centered home, making it possible for social networkers to keep Facebook at the center of their phone experiences. Will Android phone users click Like?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/facebook-android-home-phone/?cid=6882274
Tagged as: Facebook, operating systems, smart phones, social networking, user interface