Facebook delays "Instant Personalization" Setting

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Amidst the mounting concern over the sharing of private information of its users to third-party applications and developer companies, Facebook delayed its move to enable these companies access to addresses and mobile numbers of the social networks' users.

According to Inquirer.net:

Facebook announced on its developer blog on Friday it would begin granting developers access to home addresses and mobile numbers but the social network followed up with another post on Tuesday saying the move had been put on hold.

"Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data," said Douglas Purdy, director of developer relations at Facebook.

"We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so," Purdy said.

"We'll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready," he said.

"We look forward to re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks."

The change announced Friday would have allowed Facebook members to share their home address and mobile number with external websites and third-party developers of applications.