Facebook Privacy Controls: Sneak Peek
Published by Rodney Rumford March 18th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News, Facebook privacy.Facebook Privacy Controls: Sneak Peek. New Controls coming tomorrow on facebook. A much better more granular privacy control settings area for who sees what. I love it.
On Wednesday, March 18th, Facebook will be introducing privacy updates that give users more control over the information they choose to share on Facebook. The two main updates taking place are a standardized privacy interface across the site and new privacy options.
Some of the new features being added include a “Friends of Friends” privacy option that allows people to share information with people they are connected to through their friends. Users will also now have the ability to share and restrict information based on specific friends or friend lists. The friend lists feature was added to Facebook in December as a way to help users communicate with groups of friends. Now, in addition to messaging and event and group invitations, friend lists can help users to communicate by choosing what information is shared with certain groups of people.
Users have been clamoring for this for quite some time. I am happy with the simple user interface and clean design. It looks pretty straightforward. Users will now be able to…
I guess it is time to start organizing your friends into groups so that you can manage who sees what. We blogged about this back in December. 
It is worthy to note that only 25% of facebook users have changed these friend settings from the original default settings.
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Where do you get your stats on friend lists? I have a few FB apps that, combined have a few million users and saw very different results.
Using my base, I polled FB and saw that somewhere between 1 and 2% of my user base had changed a friend list setting (1.6% to be precise).
Unless my user base is radically skewed, your numbers are way off…
[I cross-posted this comment on Techcrunch. If you’re interested in discussing, you may want to respond there…I think that the most interesting thing would be to understand how we have such radically different numbers…]