Facebook has taken a keen interest in user privacy lately, for better or for worse! It's required users to review their own privacy settings following a system revamp. Privacy from app developers, though, is another matter. what started out as a college-kids-only social net has become for everyone, and its a serious enterprise. it is for this reason that the company decided to give a stern lecture to all of its members, reminding them to grow up and review their privacy settings,lest the photoes of their childish antics with the bottle of captain Morgan to be exposed to the world at large..
Facebook has not made it just a reminder to look at the setting.. but a requirement, this week users who sign on to Facebook are greeted with notices to review the new privacy options Facebook set up. if you ignore the notices enough times, you get locked out of your account until you go through the motions.
Those new settings include things like the elimination of regional networks and the ability to set more specific privacy settings for individual bits of content. These are useful adjustments, probably aimed at making Facebook more attractive for use in business settings
However, there does seem to be an implied message from Facebook that you need to be saved from your own social ineptitude. If you're annoyed by that, well, it's certainly not the first time the site has irked users with a slight makeover, and no matter how much grumbling goes on, Facebook just keeps growing.
All in all .. facebook began as one thing and transformed into another.. from a college social network.. to a business or matured social network.. i feel as though facebook is already to intrusive and by making more changes to benefit a more mature user is always a wise decision.. after all .. facebook is a virtual way of self exposure...as is myspace, orkut, bebo, hi5.. and if facebook users want .. they can always use the alternative.. and allow facebook to evolve into something more useful and purposeful
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