Facebook adds Send button for closed group

Facebook adds Send button for closed group

Agence France-Presse, Hindustan Times
San Francisco, April 26, 2011

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First Published: 21:43 IST(26/4/2011)
Last Updated: 21:45 IST(26/4/2011)

 

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it. A “Send” button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhance

ments being rolled out to a “Groups” feature launched in October of last year.

More than 50 million groups have been created at Facebook since the option became available.
“A year ago, we launched the ‘Like’ button, which gives you a quick way to share the things you find on the Web with all your friends,” Groups team engineer Elliot Lynde said in a blog post. “But there are times when you find something that you only want to share with a few specific people.”
New Send buttons, which were at 50 popular websites and expected to spread to others, let Facebook users share links to pages with fellow members of specific groups or individual friends at the online social network.
For example, someone could send a link to information about a rock concert to roommates and a link to an interesting business journal article to workplace peers.
The Groups feature lets Facebook members set up private online havens for clusters of co-workers, family, teammates, or others.
Enhancements to Groups included being able to poll members on topics ranging from timing of upcoming meetings to locations for social outings. Group members are also being given the option of uploading entire photo albums for sharing.
An added control feature prevents new members from being added without approval of group administrators.

 

Hackers infiltrated personal Gmail accounts, Google says

Hackers in China launched a phishing campaign that obtained access to the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of people, including U.S. government officials, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.

The Internet company said it was able to "disrupt" the scam but believes the hackers were able to monitor the accounts of Chinese political activists, officials from several Asian countries, journalists, military personal and U.S. government officials. The hackers were able to obtain passwords to Gmail accounts and change settings to have the accounts grant access to other users or have emails forwarded to another account.
Google said the breech was not the result of internal system failures or a security problem and that it has notified victims and relevant government authorities of the account breaches.
Following the blog post, the White House said it had no reason to believe any U.S. government officials' email accounts had been improperly accessed, according to a Reuters news report.
Google listed several steps Internet users can take to better protect their private information. Among them was switching to Chrome, Google's own web browser.
"Review the security features offered by the Chrome browser. If you don’t already use Chrome, consider switching your browser to Chrome," Google said in its blog post.

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