Talk about privacy and more importantly file a lawsuit and almost immediately you get some sort of improvement coming from Facebook. We reported the issues that people had with the new privacy settings only recently and today the social network introduced new privacy controls. The new settings would give users a better grip on what information is shared on the applications they use.
The team at Facebook wants users to have a better control over what information each has access to. This is something that many of its users have had problems with when the social network stepped up its move to introduce a more public form of the social network. With the current settings out, the users will see tweaks on each app, probably a set of customizations like letting them share their activity with a select group of friends. This would also include customizations for Facebook Connect, which is quite essential given that it presently only offers users options to either share the content on any site on their profile or not to.
While these settings do sound pleasing and the countless critics of the previously introduced privacy options would love having more control. But I am just a bit more concerned with how many more prompts it will show while I use any application. As far as true user opinion is concerned the reaction is as always mixed and while it does answer the long standing issue of giving them more control, it will by all means be found odd by many. What do you think about the new options?
