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Facebook redraws site's privacy boundaries
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Dec 09 11:08:32 2009
Facebook redraws site's privacy boundaries
By Alexei Oreskovic
December 9, 2009
www.yahoo.com
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social
network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders
Wednesday by introducing more options for user's privacy settings.
The changes will make it easier for Facebook's more than 350 million
users to limit who sees their musings, videos, photographs and other
personal information, but will also give them the opportunity to expose
a wider swathe of their information to a broader Internet audience.
The move comes as Internet search engines like Google and Microsoft are
increasingly interested in incorporating the growing trove of
user-generated content from social media websites into their search
results, and as Facebook faces competition from rival services like
Twitter, in which all information is viewable to the public.
"We certainly want to respond to the requests of people to be able to
share information in all sorts of different ways," said Elliot Schrage,
Facebook Vice President of Global Communications and Public Policy.
For rest of the article, please see:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091209/tc_nm/us_facebook_privacy
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