After the brewing controversy over releasing user info to third party companies, Facebook has FINALLY upgraded their privacy settings.The new settings are supposed to make it easy for one to control who sees certain elements of their profile and they will prevent user info from being leaked. Some of the changes are great while others are a tad shady. We now have the option of controlling weather or not our profiles are indexed by public search engines (i.e. google, bing, etc.) . Users also now have to enter their password when changing privacy settings. This change is a little iffy. I just changed some of my settings and no password was required. I guess they’re still working out the kinks on that one. Also, Facebook is giving users the ultimate control of who sees what on their profile. Got pictures of you having too much fun at the bar? Now you can control who sees your fun times at Thirsty Thursdays. You can actually single out people so that they don’t see certain things. This applies to statuses, notes, and anything else you can think of. The age of people loosing their jobs over Facebook has now ENDED!
Finally, the worst change of them all: Facebook is making it virtually impossible to controls weather or not we want others to see our profile pictures, fan pages, friends list, and a plethora of other things. This doesn’t sit well with many people seeing as though this is one of the main this that we should be able to control.
Now that it’s all said and done, are you happy with the new changes over on the Book of Faces? Comment below.