Facebook's New & simple Privacy settings

After facing criticism for introducing the 'Instant Personalization' feature that altered Facebook users' privacy settings, Facebook started tightening up the security on its site and has announced new, simpler Privacy Setting features.  Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in a blog post on the official Facebook blog, noted that the new changes will make privacy controls a lot simpler. These changes would be introduced in the coming weeks.

Facebook had tightened security after facing heat from users and critiques. Zuckerberg, in the blog post, states that the new privacy settings focus on three things: single control for user's content, more powerful control of user's basic information and easy control for turning off applications. Firstly, users would get a simpler control pane wherein they'd be able to choose who can view the content posted.


Bear in mind that these new privacy settings will be directly applicable on the future 'products' that Facebook plans to introduce. The major highlights of these new control options would be:

1. Simpler controls for assigning viewing permissions for everything user publishes in Facebook and would be applicable to future postings.
2. Easy way to determine who can find you on Facebook and which details would be visible to them.
3. Settings to opt out sharing Friend Lists and Pages the user likes.
4. Easy way to turn off Facebook Platform and features like Instant Personalization and offering information to third-party sites.

These new controls would surely make it simple for users to set their privacy as per their choice but looks like Instant Personalization would stay set as 'On' by default. For better and detailed explanation on how these new privacy settings would work, visit the Privacy Settings Explanation page on Facebook.