Facebook says yes, your posts can be used for ads

Facebook on Friday moved ahead with some proposed changes to its privacy policies to clarify that users’ posts on the site can be used in advertisements, but that users have controls to limit their appearance.Facebook update the policy very wisely ,which protects the privacy and also allows usual advertising.And these limits are charged by IT departments.

For example,accepting permission from their parents to have their data used in connection with ads. In Facebook’s August proposal,  if a user was under the age of 18.The IT department is taking responsibility for protecting the privacy of users.Members can limit who sees these types of ads, Facebook said, based on who is allowed to see “likes.” So if a person only allows family members to see that he “liked” a particular business, then only the family members would see the ad paired with the “like.”

Users can also opt out of social advertising.Advertising is par for the course on the Facebook site. People connect to their friends and the things they care about, they see what their friends are doing and they like, comment, share and interact with all of this content.

IT is the apartment  relating to these details and process,which protecting privacy of users by offering limits technologically.

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