Facebook Announces New Privacy Features

After so many controversies and so much criticism, today, at this moment Facebook stands with a new set of Privacy features.

Yesterday, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg held a press conference at the Facebook HQ  in which he announced the social networking site’s new set of privacy features.

Even though Facebook isn’t going to remove the dozens of privacy controls that let you customize settings for very specific elements of your profile. However, the company is rolling out:

• One simple control for changing content viewing permissions to friends-only, friends-of-friends, or everyone — it applies to everything you’ve published on Facebook in the past. This setting will also apply to everything you publish in the future.
• A simple way for determining how people can find you on Facebook, and what users that aren’t your friend can see.
• A simple way for turning off the Facebook Platform, specifically, being able to opt-out of Facebook’s new instant personalization features and providing third-party sites with information.
• A way to opt-out of sharing your friends list and the Pages that you like.

Source: Mashable

This means that Facebook is trying to provide your an easier way to  stop sharing information with people, websites and applications that you don’t want to have access. One of the most significant improvements is that users will be permitted to manipulate all their privacy settings using a single dashboard

“We are really going to try to not have another backlash. The settings that we announced today will apply to all the settings going forward,” Zuckerberg told reporters. The changes, which will take effect in the coming weeks, have been detailed in full on Facebook’s blog for handy digestion.

“This control will also apply to settings in new products we launch going forward. So if you decide to share your content with friends only, then we will set future settings to friends only as well. This means you won’t have to worry about new settings in the future,” Zuckerberg wrote as reported by VanityFair

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