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As expected, Facebook called for its users to vote on a series of proposed site governance changes on Monday afternoon.

In short, it’s asking you to vote … on whether you want to vote.

Example: Every time Facebook proposes any major changes to its privacy policies, the company’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (or terms of service agreement) requires that those changes be put to a vote. So Facebook will float changes out to the masses, and it takes 30 percent of the user base to weigh in and have a say in the matter. Otherwise, Facebook’s changes become law.

Problem is, 30 percent of Facebook’s user base is 300 million people, or just under the entire population of the United States. Mobilizing that many people throughout the world to vote at all is pretty much a fool’s errand at this point — especially considering we have a hard enough time with voter turnout in real world elections for people like, oh, the President of the United States. I doubt a little-publicized Facebook vote will make it anywhere near the required amount.

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Facebook today announced that it is making its Photo Sync feature more widely available to users of its Google Android and Apple iPhone mobile applications. Photo Sync automatically uploads photos taken with the smartphone to a private folder in the user's Facebook account. The user can then choose photos from that folder to share publicly on their wall or with others. The feature is available in a new version of the Facebook mobile application, which is a free download from both the Google Play Store and iTunes App Store. Facebook has been testing the feature since August.

Last week IBM looked at the effect of social networks at online retailers on Black Friday and found… nothing.

Or almost next-to-nothing: IBM said social sites generated a mere 0.34 percent of all online sales. Referral traffic to retailers from social sites was also just about zero: IBM said Facebook only accounted for 0.68 percent of visits to retail sites, while Twitter had a giant goose egg.

Can’t be, right? Those are huge platforms. Surely IBM got its numbers wrong, via some sort of technical or statistical oversight?

If so, you’d think that Facebook or Twitter might want to publicly dispute those stats, since they poke a hole in their “buy our ads, use our services, and sell more stuff” pitch.

When Facebook teaches its staff about how to detect and prevent cyberattacks, there isn’t some hum-drum Power Point presentation. Instead, it hacks its own employees.

The company told Mashable it recently celebrated its second-annual “Hacktober,” a month-long event in October which features a series of simulated security threats attacking staffer computers to see who would fall for them and who would report the issues.

If employees reported a phishing scam or security threat developed by Facebook — which showed up throughout the site or sent to company email addresses — they received a prize such as a Facebook-branded shirt, bandana or sticker. If the security threat went unreported or was clicked, staffers would undergo further training.

Facebook’s philosophy was once to give its employees iPhones for day-to-day use; however, the company wants to use Android handsets instead now. TechCrunch gave more information on previous reports this weekend, reporting that Facebook’s big Android push is due to the company wanting to reform its mobile apps on the world’s most popular mobile operating system.

“We’ve created more awareness that Android devices are available,” Facebook told TechCrunch. “There’s plenty of people here carrying around both devices, and not just engineers and not just mobile people.”

TechCrunch got their hands on several posters hanging throughout the hallways of Facebook that encourage employees to make the switch. To make the switch, employees are told to email their phone number, model, and carrier to Facebook help desk. 

“In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google’s OS. Now the company’s headquarters is plastered with these eye-popping posters asking Facebookers to “switch today”, and fix Android flaws with its secret bug reporting tool “Rage Shake”.

Facebook is making a shift. Not just to mobile, but to a balanced focus across mobile through an informal program to nudge employees to Android. It was first mentioned by Business Insider’s Owen Thomas in August and I’ve since investigated. The campaign casually known as “Droidfooding”, a portmanteau of Android and dogfooding — eating your own dogfood aka testing your own products. 

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