Facebook lets users choose to publicize themselves
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Facebook Inc, the social-network  site that has enjoyed explosive growth in new members over the  past three months, said it plans to let users tell the rest of  the world how to find them on the site.
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The influx of business users into Facebook's formerly college-centric community has led to a culture clash for some longtime users, leading them to reconsider how much personal information they share on the site.
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Now that first impressions are often made on the internet, people are strategizing about how to virtually convey who they are, and crafting an e-version of themselves that appeals to multiple audiences.
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By ANICK JESDANUN  NEW YORK - Users of the online hangout Facebook revolted and won as the site agreed Friday to let them turn off a new feature that drew privacy complaints because it lets others easily see changes made to their personal profile pages.
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Facebook kicked off the new year with additional tweaks to its development platform as it continues to&#160;grapple with external programmers&#160;who spur adoption of their applications among Facebook members through deceitful and abusive practices.Facebook has been battling this problem since May, when it opened its social-networking site to third-party developers interested in building applications for it.Chief among the annoyances have been self-promotion features in applications such as bulk unsolicited e-mails and intrusive message displays. Although&#160;Facebook has made several changes&#160;in past months, the problems persist.On Jan. 1, a Facebook official made an official blog posting titled &quot;New Year. New Rules&quot; in which he states that some developers have been sneakily bypassing the amount of e-mail notifications applications are allowed to send.&quot;Specifically, these developers have been sending notification e-mails to users for one application with another application, in order to &#39;pool&#39; the total quota of e-mail notifications together,&quot; wrote Dave Morin, Facebook&#39;s senior platform manager.In addition, other applications have been designed to trick Facebook members into inadvertently installing other applications by placing links into e-mail messages, internal notifications and the Mini-Feed feature in member profiles.&quot;Starting today, we&#39;ll begin blocking links in Mini-Feed, Notifications, and Notification E-mails which lead to the installation of another application in the hopes that developers focus on user experience and engagement being paramount, not deceiving users for the sake of growth,&quot; Morin wrote.&#160;
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A new site lets users create profiles for the different sides of their personality.
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Facebook announces that all user profiles will be available to non-users with a new search mechanism dubbed Public Search Listings. That means the once-private profiles will also be indexed by the big search engines, which may alarm some Facebook users. Facebook's search plans are fairly restrictive, but despite the tight security, this is a move away from once restrictive privacy policies.
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WorkLight unveiled a tool that will allow corporate employees to use Facebook at work, while keeping private company information confidential.
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Following the announcement by Facebook that it would make its platform available to other sites, the application-sharing environment for social networking is moving quickly and picking up steam.
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CEOs and other C-level execs might want to reconsider posting a lot of information about themselves on sites such as Facebook, according to Hong Kong-based security company Network Box.
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It unveiled new tools for user participation in an attempt to benefit from the popularity of social news features.
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It's kind of like Facebook's feed for people who don't do Facebook. http://friendfeed.com/davew  It seems pretty cool.
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By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK - Facebook, an online community now restricted mostly to high school and college students, will soon throw its doors wide open and welcome millions of Internet users currently left standing at the gates.
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Get those photos cleaned up... Facebook users may no longer be able to hide after the website announced it is launching a service that enables anyone to view member profiles.â¦
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Facebook users should not worry that personal details will be searchable on the net, says the social network.
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Breaking up with Facebook is (less) hard to do It was a long time coming but the web's favourite has-been-in-the-making, Facebook, has finally agreed to let users who are bored with it wrest their personal information from its advertising salesmens' clutches.â¦
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By JAKE COYLE  With generators for entering your own info into everything from church signs to Stephen Colbert's "On Notice" board, numerous Web sites are offering you a chance to put your name in lights.