There are so many common quizzes on Facebook, I believe most facebook users have taken few of them getting results for fun. But what you don’t realize is you are sharing your entire profile to the stranger who wrote the quiz even if your Facebook profile sets to “private”. The quiz developers could even collect your friends’ personal information! That means when your friends take the quizzes, the quiz makers get access to your profile information as well! Isn’t it scary?

Facebook’s default privacy settings don’t prevent any application developers from scouring your information. The only way to protect yourself is to take control of your information. First, you can remove the applications you don’t use anymore. And here is how you change the privacy settings for applications and websites:

1. Log in Facebook, go to Privacy Settings page

2. On the bottom of the page, you can see “Applications and Websites”. Click “Edit your settings”.

3. Look for “Info accessible though your friends” and uncheck what information you are not willing to share to applications.

4. Look for “Instant Personalization” and uncheck the box beside to “Enable instant personalization”. It prevent Facebook’s current partners like Microsoft, Yelp from receiving your information.

5. Or you can turn off the entire application platform.

Facebook just announced the new privacy policy, and also promised that they will continue to adjust the it. I believe it will get better in the future!

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I am recently updating all my social media profiles, check out the details as below and feel free to add me as your friends!

Carol Yang at LinkedIn.com
==> for professionals network. i think this is the most important social media website!

Carol Yang at Myspace.com
==> Under 2/3rds of everyone who goes online worldwide, visits MySpace. It’s amazing, isn’t it?

Carol Yang at Facebook
==> I think Facebook has the most traffic among all web 2.0 websites now

Carol Yang at Friendster.com
==> Friendster is one of the earliest web 2.0 sites, but seems more and more people start using facebook now instead of friendster these years

Carol Yang at Twitter

==> Even CNBC is using twitter! Everybody has to have a twitter account

Carol Yang at Hi5.com
==>anybody still using Hi5.com?

Carol Yang at Plurk.com

==> I just created an account at Plurk, seems it’s fun too!

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PPC Classroom held PPC Classroom Live 3 event on May 28~ 30 at Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. http://live09.ppcclassroom.com/blog/

That’s a great event. My partner, Andy Huang was one of the speakers and shared our successful cases of Google Adwords advertising. I also got the chance to meet Donna Fox and Mike Morgan. And also took pictures with Simon Leung and Lee Collins They are the super stars in this industry!

me and Simon Leung

Me and Lee Collins

During the lunch with Blake Mallen, the co-founders of ViSalus, we decided to work on Social Media Marketing project together very soon! Visalus is one of the fastest growing companies, and they have their own social media platform, Vi-Net. It’s very exciting progress, looking forward to working with them soon!

The dinner with Anik Singal, the founder of PPC Classroom and their team were fantastic as well. They are all such intelligent people, it’s an excellent experience to work with them for this event. Looking forward to attending PPC Classroom Live 4 very soon!

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Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.

The deal announced today after several weeks of negotiation values Palo Alto-based Facebook at $15 billion — less than four years after Mark Zuckerberg started the online social networking site in his Harvard University dorm room.

According to Facebook, the hottest social network website, Microsoft is now the “exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook, and will begin to sell advertising for Facebook internationally in addition to the United States.” Nearly 60% of Facebook users connect outside the U.S.

Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services division told the Wall Street Journal that “We’re very pleased with the scope and depth of our partnership, and projected market for online advertising was $40 billion. “It’s a big industry,” he said. “The equity stake we’re taking is a strong statement of confidence about this partnership.”

At this valuation, each of Facebook’s 50 million users is worth $306.12.

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