iOS: Facebook Camera is a brand new app designed to easily view, edit, and share pictures. Think of it like Facebook's Instagram (and yes, Facebook bought Instagram). Besides offering a beautiful feed of all your Facebook friends' photos, you get Instagram-like editing and quick posting to the social network.

Unlike the default Facebook app, Facebook Camera includes multiple photo sharing—check the photos you want to share off and post at once. You can add captions, tag friends, and edit (crop or rotate) photos directly.

Facebook has taken some cues from Instagram (Since Facebook recently purchased Instagram, now Facebook doesn't have to compete with the most popular mobile photo sharing app for its users). The Facebook Camera app includes filters and a sleek interface with full-size photo viewing.

Note that you'll need to have your location turned on for the app to access your iPhone's camera roll. Why? Facebook just says so (there's no clear reason given).

Photo sharing is one of the biggest benefits of using Facebook, and Facebook Camera makes it easier to do that on the go.

Facebook Camera | iTunes App Store

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There are plenty of stupid things you do on Facebook, but you probably wouldn't expect that being too private is one of them. There are actually real downsides to locking down your Facebook profile. It can hurt you in a job search or the quality of the search results for your name. Here's why.

Facebook can be a little scary when it comes to your privacy. It doesn't really have the greatest track record, and we've all heard stories about how prospective employers have found embarrassing photos and information that led to problems in the hiring process. When we hear about the downsides to sharing publicly, our instincts turn to paranoia. We want jobs. We don't want to be embarrassed. We want to survive online with our dignity intact. Those are all great goals, but completely locking down your Facebook profile is taking it too far. It can actually hurt you because you're not providing good information.

When You Post Nothing, Everyone Else Decides Who You Are

You don't have control over what other people post about you. If you get drunk at a party and someone snaps a photo, it may end up online. Sure, you can untag yourself and try to control the possible damage from embarrassing stuff popping up, but there's really no way to stop it all. You may not have active tags on Facebook, but that doesn't mean that photo won't still exist and won't show up elsewhere. When people are constantly contributing information to Facebook, as well as other parts of the web, you're always stuck playing catch up if you're trying to control how others talk about you.

This is why you need to contribute public information. If you don't, you're providing no information about who you are. If you don't post anything, everyone else determines what you look like to a stranger who searches for your name. In a job search, this can be pretty problematic. The first results can be embarrassing. If you share a name with someone else, their results may come up instead. You put yourself at risk by not contributing positive information about yourself.

The Solution Is Simple: Publicly Post What You Want Others to See

It's fine to keep most of what you post on Facebook pretty private and only visible to the friends you want to see it. That said, if you want to look good in public you should be posting a few things that make you appear like the upstanding citizen you believe yourself to be. Share photos from fun family events, opinions about a gadget you really love or hate, and tame messages like regular birthday wishes. There are plenty of things you can share in public that don't reveal anything private but show that you're a good person. When a prospective employer "stumbles" upon your Facebook page, they'll see the good stuff you want to share and be more likely to miss out on the embarrassing stuff your friends (or enemies) may have lurking elsewhere online.

This can be easier said than done. Facebook has some pretty intimidating privacy settings, but we explain them all here. Be sure to read that guide if you don't know how to manage your privacy settings in a way that allows you to be selective about what is private and what you'll let the world see.

Title photo by Ilya Andriyanov (Shutterstock). The silly pictures of Whitson are all me.

Getting new Facebook notifications is always fun, but that red number gets a lot more annoying when your notifications are just filled with apps you don't want and comment threads you no longer care about. Today, Facebook added new controls to the notification dropdown so you can unsubscribe from certain threads and apps right away.

Let's say your friend just got a big promotion, and you comment on their status to congratulate them. Then, after that, 50 of their other friends do the same, and you get a notification for every damn one of them. Previously, you'd have to head to that thread and click "Unfollow Post" to stop the notifications. Now, you can just click the "x" in the upper right-corner of the notification itslef—quick, easy, and painless. This also works for events, photos, annoying apps you never signed up for, and other things Facebook might notify you of.

Most of these changes should roll out quickly, so you should see them by the end of the day. The app notification controls are a bit more complicated, though, so we should see those in the near future. Hit the link to read more.

Facebook Keeps Shipping. Now You Can Silence Spammy Apps and More with New Notification Controls | TechCrunch