Facebook lets you control app access more with new App Settings page

Facebook is making it easier for you to see which apps are attached to your Facebook account with a revamped App Settings page. There is now a simpler way to edit the apps you use and which ones can see your timeline and other information as well as if you want your friends to see the sites you are visiting. It even lets you adjust the privacy settings of older Facebook mobile apps. You can check it out for yourself here.

Source: Inside Facebook | Via: The Next Web

Facebook & Kids Help Phone Launches Help A Friend In Need

By Sonya Davidson

Facebook Canada, along with Kids Help Phone and TSN's Micahel Landsberg, introduced Help A Friend in Need, a new resource that provides tips to help youth ages 15 to 20 identify potential warning signs of suicide on online activity. According to Facebook 7.5 per cent of young people who have contacted Kids Help Phone have spoken about suicide as the primary reason they reach out.

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Facebook adds view count for videos

Facebook videos are soon going to look like YouTube videos. The social network is adding view count to videos posted on their site. So, if you want to know if your video has gone viral, you’ll soon be able to see just that. The view count will be available for public videos posted by individual users and those posted by company pages. It is rolling out at the moment and we’re not sure how long it’ll take for Facebook to bring it to all its users.

Source: Facebook Newsroom | Via: CNET

Netflix wants you to recommend shows to your Facebook friends

If you want to inspire your friends with your brilliant entertainment recommendations or inflict your bad viewing choices on others, you can do that now with Netflix. Users in Canada and the U.S. can now send content recommendations to their friends, family, acquaintances, awkward dates, and the like. According to Cameron Johnson, director of product innovation at Netflix, you will be prompted to recommend the show to people in your Facebook list after you finish watching a show. You don’t have to worry about them seeing how much bad television you watch though, that will be kept to you. Also, if your friends’ Facebook accounts aren’t linked to your Netflix, the recommendations will be sent as a Facebook message.

Source: Netflix | Via: Consumerist