Facebook Is Serious About Its New Privacy Settings

Facebook Is Serious About Its New Privacy Settings

Earlier this year, Facebook and Twitter were declared as the Most Unsafe networking sites of 2010.  It was reported that the social networking site was upgrading its safety and security features along with restrictions regarding  sharing address and contact number. The announcement of Family Safety Center, improvised HTTPS protocol connection, Security feature called social authentication and secured connection further appreciated by users worldwide (750 million people). And if you are a keen Facebook user, you must have noticed this new feature in your privacy setting.

As soon as you login into your Facebook account and you want to add a picture or any other content to your profile pages, you can actually specify who can see it. For example: Facebook friends, a specific group of friends, or everyone who has access to the Internet. These will be indicated by icons: “Public” is represented by a globe; “friends” by a pair of heads.

Similar controls will apply to information such as a user’s phone number and hometown. You need not seek separate privacy page to who sees how much of that personal information.According to the officials, “We hope the changes will simplify the process of establishing who knows what about your life on the Internet—and hopefully, save a few people the embarrassment of unwittingly sharing too much.”

Facebook rolling out this new setting of ‘sharing things with set of friends’ is similar to that of Google+, Circles feature where user gets to create a separate circle for friends and family which will send across message among your chosen circles saving oneself from embarrassment of unwittingly sharing of information. But Facebook denies any such assumptions.

There is one more setting where without your consent none of the unflattering photographs will appear on your profile. Users will be able to approve every picture in which they are tagged before it appears on their pages. Though the publisher of the photograph can still keep it up on his or her own page.

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