Tweaking Facebook
Thursday, December 10, 2009
By Tessa Leone
After many user complaints, Facebook has changed it's privacy policy. People were complaining that their friend lists were public and could not be hidden from people that weren't on the friend list themselves.
Facebook listened to these complaints and evolved to accommodate its users needs.
"We have heard user concerns and we will soon enable people to hide their friend lists. Those who choose to hide their friend lists will not have their lists discoverable through search engines or viewable by other users," the company said in a prepared statement.
It's interesting to see how the public can make changes and 'tweak' the world around them if they speak out and band together. It makes me feel like the public has more control of the media than they realize.
Photo Credited to Facebook
2 comments:
I think it is great that Facebook finally decided to listen to the public. Now that social media is becoming very popular, peoples' privacy is becoming an even bigger issue along with it. It is nice to know that Facebook took a genuine notice to their users wishes. It is a comforting feeling to know the people behind our technology are listening.
It is awesome that Facebook would start making things like this more private. It will keep others that don't know you from adding you or being able to see anything about you. I have had people that I don't know add me and if I ask them why they added me or if they knew me, they just say "You're friends with so and so". That's kind of creepy.
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