Tuesday 20 March 2012

A breech of privacy or pure brilliance?

"Recently Read Articles" on Facebook is a growing debate on user privacy.

As one may argue that that what they read at their own time is their own business, it has actually increased readers in 'The Guardian' to 2.25million active monthly readers from none, 'The Washington' has a Sunday morning spike from 50,000 readers to 250,000 readers. 

The concept is simple, the faces of friends create an powerful social recommendation to click through to an article and install its reader app if necessary. What do you think of this app?  Is it an excellent innovative technique to Facebook App or simply a breech of privacy ? 

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/10/14/recently-read-articles/