Facebook will soon be implementing privacy changes shortly will will involve the elimination of the current regional friend networks which exist. This change is being justified by the fact that most regional networks have become so large that privacy changes based upon restricting within these groups becomes meaningless or alternatively too restrictive.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, wrote the following in an open letter to Facebook.
“However, as Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and weve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy. Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, so this is an important issue for us. If we can build a better system, then more than 100 million people will have even more control of their information.
The plan weve 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.
Were adding something that many of you have asked for – the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, well 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 well ask you to review and update your privacy settings. Youll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When youre finished, well show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once youre done youll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.”
What do you think? Should Facebook change to this system? Are the regional networking features redundant now or are regional networks useful to you?
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