Facebook’s head honcho, Mark Zuckerberg, said back in July the company was preparing to do a better job of locking down the privacy of its users.
Facebook now has 350 million users worldwide, Zuckerberg says.
In an open letter, published last night, Zuckerberg finally got around to detailing just what those privacy controls will look like.
Writes Zuckerberg on the Facebook blog:
Facebook’s current privacy model revolves around networks—communities for your school, your company or your region.
The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks 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…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.
