First Facebook introduces an annoying feature that lets your 'friends' ask you about things you obviously aren't sharing on your Facebook page, like relationships, occupation, just about anything actually.
Now its wants to help you 'share' your love of music with its 'new way to share' music helper. Say you hear a song in the car or the doctor's office but can't name the group or title. Just head over to Facebook and it'll recognize the song and of course let you share it as an update on your page.
Like inspirational quotes clogging the newsfeed isn't enough junk rotating on your Facebook page.
The feature, though, at least is not a default proposition. You need to turn it on and tell Facebook to begin listing to audio signals. It claims it won't be storing the sounds and that users will have complete control over whether to share with friends.
Be forewarned though, if you do decide to share the update will also feature 30 seconds of audio samples.
The news comes on the heels of Facebook's "Ask" feature, a new search that lets users ask others 'what's up with...' and it's not getting great reviews from media reports.
"This feature provides an easy way for friends to ask you for information that's not already on your profile," Facebook spokeswoman MoMo Zhou told reporters.
"For example, a friend could ask where you work or for your hometown. If you choose to answer, this information is then added to your profile. By default, only you and your friend can see it, and you also have the option of sharing it with others, too."
But not everyone things sharing everything via Facebook, or any other social network, is such a good habit.
As Tech Times recently reported the Electronic Frontier Foundation has listed a number of top technology companies as the least trustworthy, raising fears that personal data and information may be compromised. The report listed Amazon.com, Snapchat and AT&T as the worst in the tech industry on handling government data requests.
The nonprofit privacy advocacy organization ranks companies on a number of issues, including privacy and online security in their transparency reports.
And it's not good news for AT&T, Snapchat and Amazon.com, who languish far behind other tech companies in their ability to maintain security for their users. Topping the list were Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo, who all earned the highest six star rating in each category, based on the report [pdf].
Amazon.com and AT&T were given two stars, and Snapchat garnered only one star.
