Facebook to Change Privacy Policies
Facebook announced today that its user base has risen to 350 million.
We blogged back in June about the social network reaching 250 million users and the shift in the age groups of it audience from its original college based audience.
It is staggering to imagine that 100 million users have signed up in just under 6 months and that the audience is still growing.
Today a community wide announcement was made by Founder Mark Zuckerberg outlining the changes to come.
In the main Facebook are acknowledging the fact that privacy is a key grumble from most of its users.
“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.”
Another major change is removal of regional networks.
“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.”
Personally I welcome these changes as privacy online is a huge concern.
As social networks become more embedded in our off-line lives, the ability to retain privacy in both spaces is paramount .
