Along with some updates to their network and connections, Facebook also announced new changes to their privacy settings yesterday. The new settings now include a section known as “Friends, Tags and Connections.” This new section will allow you to edit who sees what on your profile; for instance your friend list, tagged photos, and pages you like.
“Within your Privacy Settings under the Account menu, you have a section called “Friends, Tags and Connections.” Adjusting the drop-down menus beside each field let you determine who can see those parts of your profile. These visibility settings are a direct response to your requests to be able to hide more information on your profile. Specifically, the most requested feature a few weeks ago was to enable you to hide your friend list on your profile from your friends. As part of today’s changes, you can do that.”
The interesting thing is the new settings don’t really make your information private. Facebook stated “You can control which friends are able to see connections listed on your profile, but you may still show up on Pages you’re connected to.” Essentially you are only able to hide the information under “Friends, Tags and Connections” on your own profile. The only way to keep that information from showing up on other pages is to “disconnect from them.”
Facebook has gone through a number of changes in terms of privacy, one of which in December stirred up a bit of controversy. A decision to allow user information to be indexed by search engines raised suspicion among the site’s users. The latest settings may be an attempt to get back in the good graces of those particular users.
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