New Privacy Tools from Facebook
Today Facebook finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site’s notoriously confusing privacy options. As we all know that Facebook has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings. Recently report from Norwegian consumer protection agency said that that many rulesdo not properly protect Norwegian users and do not comply with Norwegian law.
But now,glad to see Facebook is attempting to respond to those privacy criticisms with these changes, which are going live this evening.
“Numerous settings and complicated options can make it harder for people to make informed decisions about their privacy or about the Facebook experience they want,” said Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president of communications, public policy and marketing, in a press conference.
Facebook began testing the privacy changes during mid-2009 before introducing them site-wide. The changes let people decide who should see updates, whether all 350 million Facebook members should see them, and if they should be viewable across the web.
This is not what Facebook users signed up for. It’s not about privacy at all, it’s about increasing traffic and the visibility of activity on the site.
Information like your email address is recommended to remain limited to friends, but make no mistake about it – Facebook wants you to make the status messages you post visible to the entire internet.
Hope to see this story blow up for the rest of the year. It’s a very big move from Facebook.
W.Chris is a professional blogger, internet marketeer, gadget lover and Freelance programmer. He launched this site in 2008.
