Facebook users are ageing quicker than the platform!

According to this very cool infographic from Jess3 users have aged 5 years from 33 to 38 in the 2 years from 2008 to 2010.

Are you or is your daily activity on Facebook average?

Snowmageddon is wreaking havoc across America but we were surprised when it took a Tron turn into cyberspace. Some of our users and users of other Adobe Air applications are reporting seeing an all white Facebook permissions screen. This may affect you if you need to set up your SocialSafe/Facebook access. It doesn’t prevent SocialSafe from backing up your content.

Although the Facebook screen is completely white, the buttons to give access or cancel are still there, just covered in snow.

Here’s how you get through this blockade:

Position your mouse at the bottom of the permissions window, slightly to the right to allow SocialSafe to access your Facebook account

This is what the screen will look like when the thaw comes:

Apologies to anyone that has been affected by this issue. We’re told that Facebook and Adobe are working on it and we will ourselves introduce a workaround (using Facebook’s mobile login/permissions screens) in the next few days.

If you have ‘very low’ protection set up for your Facebook account you might see a new ‘Update Your Security Information’ page. This will prompt you to verify a second email address, connect your mobile and add a security question. These steps should help prevent identity spoofing.

With the recent discovery of the relative simplicity of someone hijacking your Facebook/Twitter sessions, this intelligent security monitoring is welcomed.

Remember where you lived when you were 8?

via Inside Facebook

Facebook have done a lot to make managing your privacy easier but as the core essence of Facebook is to publicly share it’s never going to go far enough for most people.

Angela Alcorn has written the very handy ebook, The Very Unofficial Facebook Privacy Manual. Definitely worth a flick through to make sure you’re comfortable with what information about you is publicly available.

Just make sure that when making changes you ensure the SocialSafe app has full access otherwise you might not be backing up everything.

Another week, another big who-ha about Facebook and Privacy. Surely Facebook allowing its app community to share information about its citizens should come as no surprise by now. How do we expect these developers to make money? They aren’t altruistic, Facebook gaming is big-bucks business and the pressure is on to make hay while the sun shines.

Social gaming developer, Ngmoco, was recently bought by DeNA for $400m! Zynga, the infamous Farmville developer, was recently valued at $4 billion.

Free is not free, it’s simply bartering; “I’ll let you sell a little info about me if I can just plant a few more virtual carrots please” and “I’ll tell you everything I know about my friends too if I could just virtually tickle my cows again”

Is it a fair exchange? Only you can decide that, but you should stop being surprised at these privacy ‘leaks’. They aren’t leaks at all, simply day to day trading.

And until Facebook introduces a ‘Buy your Privacy back’ button, hidden deep in your Account somewhere, we’re stuck with it.

Update: Facebook have acknowledged this specific issue

SocialSafe v2 brings a new database driven storage solution to provide a solid platform for us to extend SocialSafe to a host of other social networks and online storage solutions.

To ensure that your previously backed up data is visible and useful in v2 we have developed a migration tool. This was surprisingly difficult but worth the time and investment as your previous back ups contain information that in many cases will have disappeared from Facebook by now – old friends, photos, status updates etc.

The migration tool will run when you upgrade to v2 automatically.