UPDATED 14:21 EST / DECEMBER 20 2010

Facebook Introduces Instant Personalization Tutorial for Users

Facebook has created an introduction page to explain the instant personalization program to its users. As most of the users are ambiguous about this program and quite confused about its usage, this tutorial page along with video will be extremely useful to improve its understanding.

Some people have the misconception that Facebook is using their private data and sharing it with third-party sites. To avoid this confusion, Facebook has created the introduction page for Instant Personalization, a step in user communication that’s becoming vital for Facebook, the further it pushes the envelope. So, whenever a user will use the instant personalization program to change its settings, a pop-up with informational video will appear. This video tutorial will tell the users about the purpose of this program and how to utilize it.

Regarding user sentiment around this, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook said, “there’s a lot of misconceptions about this. People have this notion that you go to a site and Facebook sends all your information to that site. That’s not true.”

When the users will click on “Learn more”, a new introduction page will open with the headline “The web is better with friends,” that will provide additional information about the program usage.

Putting aside all the controversy, the instant personalization program is quite useful, especially for Bing, which will utilize Facebook features like the Facebook Likes as part of its social search results. In turn, Bing will empower the instant personalization program for Facebook, by which users can search for people on Bing, and will be able to see friends and their friends, within their search results.

Finally, Facebook is topping the charts and is ahead of internet giants including  Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN. Secondshares reported increase of Facebook’s share in terms of average worldwide traffic .  As social networks become more centralized around an individual’s web experience, searching in this context will be increasingly important, upping the value of Facebook for its search potential.  It’s Instant Personalization tools are improving the prowess behind that potential.


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