2010 Word of The Year: Privacy [Cross post]

Note: this is a cross-post from the uTest software testing blog.  Please visit the original post for more comments, Tweets, and other goodness. I recently attended a marketing conference that discussed emerging technology trends.  When the panel was asked what was the single-word topic of 2010 they almost all said, “mobile”.  I didn’t think of.

Facebook Privacy Infographic

I love this infographic from WordStream illustrating the diminishing default privacy in Facebook.  It certainly reinforces that in this digital age you need to be aware of how to edit your Facebook privacy settings. It’s also interesting to note the amount of times, on average, each person is photographed (at the bottom of the chart)..

How To Manage Facebook Privacy, cont.

In August of 2008 I wrote a blog post on how to adjust your Facebook privacy options within your friend network – this is still something I would suggest reviewing on a regular basis.  (Mashable has ‘lists’ as their number one tip for Facebook users.)  More recently, however, Facebook has changed the information distributed OUTSIDE.