Jeremy Castro

Jan

Facebook Upgrades Photo Uploader

Photography, Technology

Not sure why I’m putting this on my site, but I was a little concerned when I saw at “Facebook Plugin” alert when I was trying to upload some pictures. It was def the first time I’ve seen this and is actually a bit interesting to think about.

Not only will it be a security/spam/spyware concern for many of the 350,000,0000 users on Facebook but it is also an interesting technology approach for facebook. From what I can tell, this an early attempt at using a “plugin” architecture on their site. I wonder what it has in store for the next stage of the site.

I’m curious to see how Facebook can keep their site secure and void of vulnerability to spyware/virus, etc in opening up themselves to plugins.

Anyway, maybe people will good “facebook plugin virus” or “facebook photo upload scam” or something along those lines to see if that warning is indeed something safe to use and click “OK” to.

I wonder how many people will wait to upload pictures until they find out “my friends did it, so it must be safe.”

Well, here is my “it’s safe to click “OK” on the Facebook photo upload plugin warning.”