As part of the new changes to Facebook, third-party applications will be incorporated into each user’s personal profile. Instead of manually clicking the mouse to allow updates from apps to be shared with friends, the information will routinely be added to someone’s profile each time they use the app with a single permission agreement. Users will need to be more conscientious about their activities because information concerning their private use of the media, exercise schedules and other personal routines will automatically be published on their Facebook walls. Along with the integration of third-party applications, Facebook also introduced the Timeline. The Timeline will take information from people’s personal profiles, such as status updates, tagged photos and events, and meld these components into a chronological “story” of that person’s life/Elisa Eiguren, UIdaho Argonaut. More here. (AP file photo: Mark Zuckerberg at recent Facebook conference)

Question: Are you uneasy about possible privacy intrusions that are part of the new changes to Facebook? Do you understand all those changes?