{"id":32318,"date":"2011-08-24T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32318"},"modified":"2011-08-24T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:17:30","slug":"facebook-boosts-privacy-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/32318-facebook-boosts-privacy-features.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook boosts privacy features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The changes were an apparent response to popular safeguards that have been a major factor in the success of rival social-networking platform <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The changes allow users to easily specify which groups of friends see individual posts, and to view their profiles as other people see them.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> changed the way pictures are tagged, allowing people to untag themselves from others&#8217; photos, but also to tag anyone in photos, rather than just Facebook friends.<\/p>\n<p>Users for the first time get the option of changing their updates after they are posted, including content and who can see them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we&#8217;re announcing a bunch of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want,&#8221; the company announced on its official Facebook blog.<\/p>\n<p>The new features will roll out to all users in the coming days, Facebook said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced a new set of privacy features Tuesday aimed at giving users greater control of their data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,167],"class_list":["post-32318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32320,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32318\/revisions\/32320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}