Facebook is rolling back one of their long-standing privacy policies on its network. Starting today, your default privacy settings on...
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One of the biggest concerns among Facebook users is privacy. Many users will tell you that they don’t want everyone seeing the pictures they post of their kids and/or their personal information, but that Facebook’s privacy controls are confusing and can be hard to navigate. So, in response to the complaints, the social network rolled out new privacy control settings at the end of December that are more user-friendly.
The important thing to know about privacy on Facebook is what the defaults are and how to change them. A privacy shortcuts menu with a small lock icon at the upper right hand corner of every Facebook page now gives you easier to find options.
The introduction of new programs or software often has the effect of fundamentally changing the way we interact with long-established ones. The Street View program turned Google Maps from a resource for directions into a photo gallery of the world. YouTube MP4 converters turned a video website into a legitimate music source. And, now, the Timeline redesign has turned Facebook from a traditional social media site into a more encompassing life scrapbook or autobiography.
The Facebook Timeline is an overall of the website’s regular user profile. In the old profile, the most recent status updates, pictures, and wall posts appeared at the top of the screen. To see a post from several months or years ago, a viewer would need to do a good deal of scrolling and searching. The Timeline changes this by adding a sidebar on the left side of every profile. The sidebar lists off all the years during which that profile registered activity. A viewer needs only to click on a year if they want to see pictures or wall posts from that time.
