| If you have a Facebook account and are in a relationship, you may be able to take a virtual tour of your love life. If you are a Facebook user who is “In a Relationship” or “Married” and is linked to your partner on Facebook, you now have your very own Couples Page, courtesy of the social networking site. Facebook Couples gives a history of the posts, comments and photos shared with your significant other. To check out your new relationship page, sign in and go to www.facebook.com/us. While some users like the idea of Facebook Couples, other users are incensed by the use of their comments and photos without their express permission. But there is little Couples haters can do about Facebook’s new brainchild. As soon as you upload a photo or post a comment to your wall, it is no longer yours — it belongs to Facebook. This means Facebook techies can use your information to create pages without your authorization. So how do you get rid of your Couples page? Virtually break up with your significant other of course. Unfortunately, Facebook documents virtual break ups too. The social network sends out a notification to all your friends that your relationship is over accompanied by a broken heart graphic. The Couples page is a new take on the Friendship pages Facebook introduced in 2010. Facebook rolled out a new look for Friendship pages Nov. 8 to coincide with its test of Couples pages. The Couples pages feature rolled out to all users this week. One of the most popular reactions to Facebook’s new feature is that of The Telegraph women’s editor Emma Barnett. Several news outlets have featured comments from her opinion piece ‘Facebook ‘couples pages’ make me want to retch.’ “I will give credit where credit is due,” she writes. “Mr. Zuckerberg is brilliant and has past form of creating new behaviors through the launches of new features… However, he is way off the mark with proactively creating couples pages, which automatically curate people’s relationships. “Mr. Zuckerberg: by all means keep giving people new tools — as you did when you created Facebook. But when you start doing things for us — the experience is anything but social or remotely positive. You have infantilized my relationship for me with the creation ofwww.facebook.com/us. Only I should get to do that. And you may have just forced me, a newlywed, to take finally take the plunge and break up with my husband on Facebook.” While many Facebook users seem to agree with Barnett, others, such as blogger Justin McLachlan, say it is much ado about nothing. “There’s nothing creepy here, that I can see, just more out of proportion reactions to something new, different and innovative,” he writes in his blog. “It’s no different, really, than typing your name into Google and seeing your face and other personal details from social networks mashed up in a sidebar.” Who is right, Barnett or McLachlan? Please let us know your thoughts. Post from: SiteProNews |
Facebook Couples: Cute or Privacy Invasion?
