There is no way you can satisfy everyone and the job gets tougher the more you grow in popularity. The same is the case with Facebook as the social network continues to face issues from its users every now and then. Presently, five people in the Northern District of California have filed a lawsuit against the social network.
The issue? Well the same old concerns with the privacy settings the social network introduced last year which appear to have taken the privacy out and brought much of user information to public, by default. The five people voiced the problem stating that the social network is now much less private than what it promises to be with the new settings. I personally think that is quite true from a user’s perspective. I mean think of it, how simply was being private was? Do you remember seeing a user profile when you searched for one or came across a link to someone’s profile? It just showed you the name, profile picture and a networks the person was associated to. Jump over to the present scene and we have a user actually defining what needs to be public and what has to be hidden from even the eyes of friends. The results for search would now show you almost everything, from names, pictures to geographic location in case the user hasn’t modified his privacy settings.
The settings are now scattered across more than two dozen pages on the platform and to be honest, the layman who continues to use the social network will have great difficulty in figuring those out. Most of them actually have no idea on how they can prevent ads from having their activity or photos being published on friends’ walls. I wont call these users to be less savvy with social network jargon, all of us are more prone to be public with these current settings, no doubt about that.
But think of Facebook too. I can bet on this if the social network had continued with its long existing strategy on privacy many would have called it dictatorial. To end this one, I personally think Facebook should introduce a one click method for privacy to satisfy the users; meaning that by default, all settings should be private and only made public or modified as per users’ wishes.
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