On Wednesday, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, introduced three new Facebook features starting with Groups, which he says will give members more control over who sees what when they post content.
Months back, Facebook introduced a feature called lists which was suppose to give you some additional control over who could see your posts, but today Facebook revealed that less than 5% of members actually use the feature. It seems that this is due in part to the fact that lists is hard to get set up and use. So now, Facebook is replacing lists with Groups, which is supposed to be easier to manage and should give you better control of which friends can see what you post and when.
Facebook has taken a beating in the tech community and by its members who are frustrated about having to struggle to understand how to control their privacy settings. In late April, Facebook unveiled its new Open Graph concept which basically opens up the internet to make it more social and more connected for the over 400,000,000 people around the world that use facebook. Through the Open Graph, web designers can implement links and controls that allow users to “like” websites and content on those sites and link them back to their own facebook profile, thereby making the web a more social place for people to see and share information. With this rollout came a rework of facebook’s privacy policies that were so complex and difficult to understand that the frustration has become a part of daily conversation.
