Sunday, September 18, 2011

Facebook launches subscriptions for updates button

Facebook has enabled a feature that seems more along the lines of something that has existed since the launch of Twitter. The signature button allows a member to receive updates from social networking from a person without being her friend. This would be tantamount to follow someone on Twitter, since it eliminates the user's approval for the updates to be sent.


What Facebook did basically was make life easier for stalkers who do not need to seek more information about the people who are targets of his obsession: updates simply sign a limb and expect the information arrives. Fortunately, those responsible for privacy within the social network has learned their lesson and did not activate the new functionality for everyone. You have to go on this page to let subscribers more than anything.

After the signing of a profile is activated, the user can still choose your level of stalking preferred amount of updates, ranging from receiving all updates from a person or only the most important as a new job or a change in status relationship, for example. Only posts marked as public will be sent to subscribers.

This button disappears after signing two members become friends on the network and subscriptions and subscribers of a Facebook member to activate this functionality is available for anyone to see, along with other items in the sidebar. I hope there is a way to disable it and if not, Facebook should create.

Another interesting detail: this feature seems to only be available for over 18 years.