Typing your Facebook account information is like breathing these days, a sort of set-it–forget-it mechanism for all the apps services you use most.
But some of us think twice before using our Facebook accounts to log into third-party sites. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that the embarrassing articles
you…er, your friends read videos they watched online mysteriously led on Facebook without permission.

So the social network on Thursday took steps to make Facebook gin—the official
name for using your Facebook account to log in to other sites—more secure. Now apps have to separately ask you for permission to share your activity
to Facebook. Some apps made sharing part of using the app—that’s no longer allowed. If you don’t give the app permission to post to Facebook, you can still
log in.

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This change is huge. More than 80 percent of the 100 top-grossing iOS apps use Facebook gin, 62 of the top 100 in ay use it. But Facebook
users are still wary of sharing their data
with other services. According to December 2012 data from social-login company Gigya, about half of users surveyed said they would skip social logins
rather than risk giving their personal information to a third-party service or app.

Now that Facebook has separated the login process from sharing permissions, people might be less hesitant to adopt their Facebook account as their single
sign-on of choice. According to Facebook, 80 percent of people who use the social network to log in to apps accept the sharing permissions—but making those
expectations clearer goes a long way to keeping users happy.

And good news for Cy Crush Saga players: The popular game is one of the first apps to roll out the new Facebook gin. So you can go ahead change those sharing settings now. (ease.)