# Social Media Roundup for August 26th, 2011 > August is certainly not a quiet month in the tech and social media worlds. This week was a busy one. On the 24th, Steve Jobs, again, successfully announced his latest “mind-blowing” product called “iQuit”… but I think everyone has already… > URL: https://www.smartdatacollective.com/social-media-roundup-august-26th-2011/ > Last modified: 2011-08-26T23:09:00+00:00 August is certainly not a quiet month in the tech and social media worlds. This week was a busy one. On the 24th, [Steve Jobs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs), again, successfully announced his latest “mind-blowing” product called [“iQuit”](http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391791,00.asp)… but I think everyone has already seen this news in their feeds and across the front pages, so we won’t spend too much time on that subject! On the social network front, [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com)and [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com) both made announcements this week. **Lets take a look at [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com)first:** * [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com) has made some significant changes to its privacy settings. Users now can now share to specific people or groups, essentially increasing user control over who see what. #### More Read [](https://www.smartdatacollective.com/social-roi-integrating-social-media-analytics-other-business-intelligence/) [Social ROI – Integrating Social Media Analytics with Other Business Intelligence](https://www.smartdatacollective.com/social-roi-integrating-social-media-analytics-other-business-intelligence/) * [Paid, Earned and Owned Are Dead](https://www.smartdatacollective.com/paid-earned-and-owned-are-dead/) ** [That’s Sick! Text Mining and Words with Multiple Definitions](https://www.smartdatacollective.com/thats-sick-text-mining-and-words-multiple-definitions/) ** [Turning Data Into Content Through Social Media](https://www.smartdatacollective.com/turning-data-content-through-social-media/) ** [Is My Data Really Mine?](https://www.smartdatacollective.com/my-data-really-mine/) They also [updated their location services.](http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-places-location-tag-2011-08) In addition to the existing Places check-ins, users can now add location information to wall posts and photos. *From [allfacebook.com](http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-privacy-settings-3-2011-08)* Here’s a list of the major improvements. - The privacy settings are moving toward individual post windows and profiles. - Users are gaining the ability to approve tags of themselves in others’ posts and photos. - All tags will include an attribution of the person who did the tagging. - Places no longer require physical check-ins, so people can add locations to posts, even from the desktop. - You don’t need to be friends with someone to tag them in a post or photo. - You don’t have to like a brand to tag it in a post or photo. - Facebook has changed the word “everyone” to “public” in privacy settings, for clarity. - You can customize privacy, or visibility of information, on a post-by-post basis. - Users can edit the visibility of individual bits of content anytime after they post. - The changes don’t affect mobile users, at least not for now. **Speaking of [Twitter:](http://www.twitter.com)** [Twitter](http://twitter.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed) has begun its [new photo sharing feature](http://blog.twitter.com/2011/06/searchphotos.html)to its users. The new photo service allows users to attach photos with their tweets, which could pretty much replace the similar functions provided by 3rd party vendors such as [TwitPic](http://twitpic.com/) over the past years. It means that users can now generate richer content on [Twitter](http://twitter.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed) than merely text. But on the other hand, the new function makes [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com) feeds resemble a [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed) wall post, which has always allowed users to share many types of media content. **Are we forgetting about [Google+?](http://plus.google.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed)** Last week at a [Social Media Today Webinar](http://socialmediatoday.com/342813/audio-archive-inside-google-plus), Our [CEO Maggie Fox](http://twitter.com/#!/maggiefox)presented some of the latest stats of Google+ as it approaches its two-month birthday. Instead of going into detail on people’s reaction to functionally, I think it is better to let the numbers do the talking. *From [singlegrain.com](http://ansonalex.com/infographics/google-plus-and-facebook-user-statistics-overview-google-infographic/)* - 74% of Google+ users are male Top 10 Occupations of Google+ users - 10.05% Software Engineer - 10.77% Designer - 13.57% Developer - 24.56% Engineer - 4.88% Writer - 4.23% Web Developer - 3.67% Software Developer - 3.05% Programmer - 3.05% Photographer - 2.79% Artist [Google+ has gained over 25 million registered users](http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-reaches-25-million-users-activity-declines/31500/) in about two months. But the question is, how many active users are there?  Or let me ask you this, when was the last time you checked your [Google+](http://plus.google.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed) account and saw new feeds from anyone of your circles? It is not hard to recognize that some of the latest changes [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com) and [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com)made align to the aesthetics of [Google+](http://plus.google.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed).  So do people really need [Google+](http://plus.google.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed) if other platforms are offering the exact same services? I think we are all still looking forward to see what [Google](http://google.com#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed) will do next in the social space battle. ****