In an open letter to the Facebook community its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced some upcoming changes to Facebook privacy settings. The main reason for the privacy changes is connected to the incredible growth of the social networking website. According to Marc the current privacy model of Facebook relies not networks which can be communities, companies and even regions. And it is the regions that made Facebook reconsider the privacy settings as some regional networks have grown to 1 million and more members which made the all or no-one approach unfeasible.
More than 50% of all Facebook users are part of a regional network and the upcoming changes will give them – and everyone else – more control over the data that they share.
The result is that regional networks are removed from the privacy controls completely and replaced by a simpler model which basically allows the user to share content with friends, friends of friends or everyone.
This will go along with an overhaul of the Facebook privacy page. Some settings will be combined on that page making it easier for users to control their privacy.
Facebook users will be notified in the next couple of weeks about the changes. The notification will ask them to review and update their privacy settings to reflect the changes of the update.
Make sure to check out our Facebook Login guide to stay on the safe side when accessing the social network.
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