By Carly
It’s not exactly a big secret that Facebook is the largest social networking site on the Internet – and it continues to grow on a daily basis. There are actually now 350 million active users (up 50 million from September). With this rapid and consistent growth, security concerns continue to increase.
To ease the minds of those concerned over privacy, founder Mark Zuckerberg recently released a letter to the Facebook community announcing some changes to security features. The new, simplified security form lets you set your content to be available to just your friends, your friends and their friends, or everyone.
This is a change from the current use of regional networks, which Facebook will completely be doing away with.
Users will also be allowed to control who sees each piece of content they post. For example, you could have your entire profile as private except for your photos. You may allow friends of friends to see those.
My personal opinion is that while these changes will surely put more minds at ease, they won’t necessarily solve the problems that Facebook has been having with phishing scams and hacked accounts. Additionally, no system is foolproof. The old maxim applies: don’t post anything on the Internet that you wouldn’t want your boss, former boyfriends/girlfriends, current boyfriends/girlfriends, parents, grandparents, children or anyone else to see. Basically, assume that your online identity is a billboard in Times Square, no matter what you set your privacy settings to.
These security changes for Facebook, first announced in July, will be rolling out over the next few weeks.
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Carly no longer works for O'Neill Communications and we wish her the best in her new endeavors!
