…The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.We’re adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we’ll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July.
Since this update will remove regional networks and create some new settings, in the next couple of weeks we’ll ask you to review and update your privacy settings. You’ll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When you’re finished, we’ll show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once you’re done you’ll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.
We’ve worked hard to build controls that we think will be better for you, but we also understand that everyone’s needs are different. We’ll suggest settings for you based on your current level of privacy, but the best way for you to find the right settings is to read through all your options and customize them for yourself. I encourage you to do this and consider who you’re sharing with online.
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Hey Todd – I’m also intrigued by the possibility of more nuanced privacy settings on Facebook and particularly the ability to control more precisely who sees each individual bit of posted content.
Indeed, when you have the option to show everyone things posted to Facebook, Facebook makes itself a kind of universal publishing platform. Right?
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thanks for the comment, Matt. I’ve been remarking here and over on my geeky blog http://smbar.posterous.com that facebook is looking to take over a lot of the communications functions that are handled now via phone and sms. the allfacebook blog said basically the same thing yesterday. while reporting study results that contradict the recent tempest in a fishbowl over younger users thinking fb wasn’t cool anymore, the author got a bit OT and started talking about privacy settings, finishing: