People are up in arms about Facebook’s new privacy policies, partly because some information was forced into public view and partly because there are so many settings that figuring out what’s public and what’s private is confusing. Guilbert Gates of the New York Times clears things up with the above graphic. To put it simply: there’s a lot of stuff.
Additionally, is a look at the growth of Facebook’s privacy policy by number of words:
To be fair though, the privacy policy has grown with the amount of data feeding into Facebook, as opposed to a growing policy with a fixed amount of data.
[Thanks, John]
Thanks for this.
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I think a growing privacy policy is not a must for the growing amount of data, of which the contents are more or less the same as before.
The average reading speed is about 200 Words/minute. thus participating in facebook as an “aware” participant means spending about 29 minutes of reading.
http://ezinearticles.com/?What-is-the-Average-Reading-Speed-and-the-Best-Rate-of-Reading?&id=2298503
designers should plot time and comprehensibility on a 2 axis graph. for various services including the US tax forms etc. it would be enlightening to say the least.
Look it once you become a part of a social network you can set all the privacy settings you want but if someone in your network for example, says “Happy 50th birthday the cat is out of the bag. You might as well not go online at all. lol
How do you think they did the visualization of the Privacy Statement wordcounts? I like it.
It’s just the text of the privacy policies set in about 1 point type in Illustrator.
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I think a growing privacy policy is not a must for the growing amount of data, of which the contents are more or less the same as before.
Amazing: FB’s privacy policy is 200 – 1500% percent longer than any other social networking site listed! I promptly posted the image part of the article to my FB page!.
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