…. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Pretty much sums up my thoughts on Facebook and its ever changing privacy settings. I understand the uproar every time a layout changes, or the settings change. People, for the most part, do not like change.
When Facebook started allowing people without a college affiliation, people freaked out. When Facebook changed its wall functions to status based, people freaked out. When Facebook changed its privacy settings, people freaked out. People love to freak out.
In the past couple of months, Facebook made some changes, or extensions, to current privacy settings. This gave the user MUCH more control over what people saw, how much they saw, and in what context. Facebook’s home page announced these changes on the main page, sent out emails, and gave step by step instructions on how to edit your privacy settings.
Facebook used to be all or nothing. If you weren’t friends with someone, you either set that they COULD or COULD NOT see your profile. That was when everyone was in the same network, and were using Facebook for the same means.
Now, with business and networking becoming a larger part of the social media outlet, it might be nice to allow people I am not friends with to access my work information, and hobbies. But no, I might not want them seeing photos of me out last Saturday night or a link to my family’s Facebook pages. The new settings allow me to share exactly what I want, every last detail, to who I want. And I’ve found it quite and I have no complaints about the changes.
If you were silly enough to ignore the memo the first time Facebook changed its settings, than I don’t pitty you when your future employer comes across photos of you doing a keg stand back in 2004. If you are smart enough to put the information out there, you should be smart enough to protect it.
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