Facebook has occupied a massive presence in the field of social networking since shortly after its initial launch. Even so, the website has been subject to fairly regular questions regarding the security it offers its users. To address these questions, the website is adding increases to user security, according to Reuters.
The news source reports that privacy has always been a challenge to users as well as the website’s designers. As a free service, Facebook can only generate revenue through advertising, which often leads to third-party companies having access to users’ personal information in order to customize their ad experience.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, debuted user-friendly privacy settings in 2010, revising previous design features that made it difficult for some to properly control access to individual pages.
The news source reports that users will now have to approve all photos that they are tagged in, allowing them to avoid being connected to anything they don’t wish to make public. Additionally, privacy can be adjusted whenever any information is shared by a user for any reason.
Facebook made additional headlines on August 24, when it reached two internet milestones – hitting one trillion page views and amassing 870 million individual users, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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