{"id":646684,"date":"2013-03-13T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=136296"},"modified":"2013-03-13T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:14:27","slug":"finally-netflix-u-s-gets-social-with-facebook-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646684","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Netflix U.S. gets social with Facebook sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Netflix-Friends-600x357.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Netflix Friends\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-136325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Netflix, the popular DVD-by-mail and internet streaming service, today\u00a0announced\u00a0that it is bringing social sharing to your video experience with new Facebook integration &#8212; a feature previously available elsewhere, but prevented here by U.S. law. Now you can no longer pretend to your friends that you really didn&#8217;t watch that sappy love story last night.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix&#8217;s Cameron Johnson, director of product innovation<em>,<\/em>\u00a0states that &#8220;Netflix members in the U.S. can share their favorite shows and movies on Netflix with friends by connecting to Facebook and agreeing to share&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The integration will add a new row to your Netflix titled &#8220;Watched by your friends&#8221; and customers will also be able to see what movies and TV shows were rated four or five stars in the new &#8220;Friends\u2019 Favorites&#8221; row. As for that potentially\u00a0embarrassing\u00a0movie I mentioned at the beginning, you do not really need to worry about that. The new service will allow you to choose not to share a specific title by clicking the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Share This&#8221; button in the player. The company also promises easy control over all of this &#8212; &#8220;You can also visit your &#8216;Social Settings&#8217; in &#8216;Your Account&#8217; on Netflix.com to turn on additional sharing to Facebook or stop sharing altogether&#8221;, Johnson explains.<\/p>\n<p>While Netflix has expanded its reach to other markets and integrated this feature for them, this took a long time to become available for U.S. customers. The company had to wait for\u00a0Congress to update a video-sharing law, which it did in December 2012, that previously prevented the sharing of video rental history for privacy reasons. The law was a relic from the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination era, when his rental records leaked to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix is rolling this feature out now and promises that all customers will have access to it by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=X9zFWM_gfW0:ODLMLXxu3sk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=X9zFWM_gfW0:ODLMLXxu3sk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/X9zFWM_gfW0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, the popular DVD-by-mail and internet streaming service, today\u00a0announced\u00a0that it is bringing social sharing to your video experience with new Facebook integration &#8212; a feature previously available elsewhere, but prevented here by U.S. law. 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