The social networking world seems to be in an uproar with the Facebook privacy settings. The ease and use of managing privacy settings can be daunting to the average user who faces navigating through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook seems to now be at listening to its users.
As reported Wednesday on Wire, Tim Sparapani, Facebook’s chief of public policy, said in a radio interview on Tuesday that Facebook has hearing that users are frustrated and confused with the complexity of Facebook’s privacy settings.
“I think we are going to work on that. We are going to be providing options for users who want simplistic bands of privacy that they can choose from and I think we will see that in the next couple of weeks.”
So rather than wait for a “couple of weeks”, spend time ranting or join a mass exodus group, take matters into your own hands and mange your privacy settings.
Resources – Facebook: Manage Privacy Settings
Here are a few resources that provide an overview of the current privacy settings and how to navigate and change them to suite your own personal needs.
A video was put together by Huffington Post that provides a quick overview on how to change settings.
Facebook Privacy Settings: How to Fix Your Profile in 2 Minutes
The New York Times published an article - Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options that provides a flow chart to navigate the privacy setting. Be sure to check out the stats on the length of Facebook’s privacy policy, it is now longer than The United States Constitution at 5830 v. 4543.
ReclaimPrivacy.org is a bookmarking tool that you run while in Facebook privacy settings that will scan your settings and alert you as to which settings are secure and which are private. You can then either have ReclaimPrivacy secure the settings for you or click on a link that will take you to the privacy settings where you can review and make individual choices.
Hopefully these resources will provide you with the tools and information you need to make your own choice as what information is shared and what is protected.
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