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Facebook Revamps Privacy Settings

By Jeralyn

Facebook announced its new privacy features today. You can read more here. The changes seem to be generating praise.

Facebook has become so complicated and so perilous. About the only feature I use regularly is "send a private message." If I want to comment on what a friend wrote, I don't want every other friend getting a message on their page saying I commented on X's status or I like what X wrote or I wished X a happy birthday.

And while I like seeing what my friends put on their pages, I feel like a voyeur reading about who they became friends with, who they like or what they think about someone else's photos and postings. [More...]

I'd be much more likely to enter a discussion on FB if my comments stayed on the discussion page and didn't get broadcasted beyond it.

Maybe I'm just anti-social. Or, maybe Facebook is just so big it's impossible to take part and not become over-exposed.

If you're on FB, what do you think are it's best and worse features?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 26, 2010 (boomark / email).