Facebook Privacy Changes Go Live, Be careful of “Everyone”
As promised, Facebook has begun rolling out new privacy options to its 350 million users.Watch out for the “Everyone” setting.
On Wednesday morning, users began seeing a message offering a new, simplified privacy settings page and the ability to set specific options for every post made to Facebook.
The changes, first announced this summer, again promised last week, and available today, give users much tighter control of who sees what, down to the individual reader, if desired.
Especially important is the new “everyone” setting that determines whether a Facebook post will be seen on other services, such as in Google search results.
Other settings include “only friends” and “friends of friends.” A “customize” option allows users to show or hide a post from specific individuals or user-created lists.
The options are available by clicking on a new “lock” icon that appears next to the “share” button when a Facebook user updates their status. Any setting may be chosen as a default and the default option may be changed as desired.
Facebook also today updated its privacy policy to reflect the changes.
Here is how the “Everyone” setting is described (this may be important to you):
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