I was just switched over to Facebook’s new streamlined privacy settings. To me, anyway, these are much simpler to use! I really like the visual table showing most of your privacy settings up-front.
And those dots really do move – for example, I noticed that I had set “My status, photos, and posts” to Everybody, but I had “Can comment on posts” set to Friends Only. So I clicked “Customize Settings,” changed the setting, and the dot moved – voila! Easy stuff.
I still need to look through the Applications and Websites privacy settings, but at first glance, they seem simpler, too.
Later on this week I plan to make another screencast overview of the new settings, so stay tuned (that is, if the week doesn’t get away from me).
Just curious – how do you have your privacy settings set up? Does it look like mine? Let me know!
Eric says
All of my dots are in the right-most column as I set everything to “Friends Only” after the latest privacy debacle. I also deleted all of my interests, activities, and movies, leaving only a handful of musical artists and books on my profile page. I do this mainly because I'm in grad school and don't have a job secured yet, nor any idea what might offend future employers; I think the privacy standards of the job-seeking and employed must needs be vastly divergent. There is little advantage to publicly expressing myself if it risks rendering me homeless.
walt crawford says
The new provisions just turned up on my account–and the page is mysterious. There's a fourth column you don't see on your screenshot or any of the FAQs, “Other,” and about half of my items are in that column. When I go to individual settings, they're mostly “Friends Only”–so I honestly don't know what FB is doing. Which, frankly, makes it hard to trust them.
davidleeking says
Eric – good points, especially on the job-seeking stuff. Interestingly
enough, all the stuff I was instructed to never tell potential employers –
ie., religion, politics, age, ethnic background, etc – are all easily
findable via a social network like Facebook.
davidleeking says
Eric – good points, especially on the job-seeking stuff. Interestingly
enough, all the stuff I was instructed to never tell potential employers –
ie., religion, politics, age, ethnic background, etc – are all easily
findable via a social network like Facebook.