Facebook already offers several privacy options for users, though many users of the social network have no idea they exist due to how deep one has to go to find them. Well, Facebook is making some changes, but it will only affect new users to the platform. If you have no idea how to use Facebook's privacy settings, now is the time to learn.
What Facebook is doing is not exactly new. There's no new feature; there's no new NSA stopping bullet you should look forward to as a new user to Facebook, just a few changes that should have been put in place a long time ago.
Usually when someone signs up for Facebook, the default privacy settings allow the general public to view all posts created by the user. If the user only wants his or her posts to be only seen by friends or friends of friends, then they are required to jump into the settings to make this change.
This is no longer the case for new users signing up. The moment you hit that submit button, you can be certain that your friends can only view all posts created by you. So if you're not too tech savvy or too busy to take the time out and learn a few things, then this is for you.
"While some people want to post to everyone, others have told us that they are more comfortable sharing with a smaller group, like just their friends. We recognize that it is much worse for someone to accidentally share with everyone when they actually meant to share just with friends, compared with the reverse.
"So, going forward, when new people join Facebook, the default audience of their first post will be set to Friends. Previously, for most people, it was set to Public," says Facebook in a blog post.
Facebook is working hard to fix some of the privacy problems that have plagued the social network in the past, and are still in the minds of many up to this day. The social network is currently working on what it calls Anonymous Login, a feature that allows Facebook users to log into apps and websites anonymously.
Such a feature could deter users from creating several Facebook accounts to make comments on the web, or to protect their data from being shared with apps.
