New Facebook Privacy Settings Create an Uproar
Over the last couple years, Facebook has been updating its website to compete more directly with Twitter. Twitter has long been the more “open” of the two networks – most of the things you do on Twitter are shared with the whole world. Facebook has traditionally been much focused on giving users the ability to control their privacy, and only allow certain people (like friends and family) to view photos, comments on your wall, your status, etc.
Well, this last week Facebook updated their privacy controls to more easily allow people to share their information more broadly. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described the changes at length in an online letter to Facebook members.
Time will tell whether this was a smart move or not. At least Facebook has kept the old privacy controls around, at least for now. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
