Facebook Overhauls Privacy Controls
Mark Zuckerberg is quite young. He is the CEO and cofounder of Facebook. Getting 350 million people across the world to sign up is really amazing. That is what Zuckerberg is enjoys doing. He knows a simple rule: to gain power over a larger group of people, you must empower them or at least make them feel that they are empowered. But keep the overall control in your hands. Mark has been able to generate this large community in five years. Every year has seen exponential growth of users.
Two major announcements have come from Mark Zuckerberg on his official blog at Facebook. Both announcements are related to users' power. On one hand, through one change he is empowering each individual user to control each and every segment belonging to oneself. The user can define sharing level for that particular piece of information (with friends, with friends of friends, or with everyone). So if you are uploading your pictures, you can clearly define who can see it and who cannot. Similarly, your information, posts, and activities can all can be controlled in the similar fashion.
On the other hand Mark Zuckerberg snatched away a power from his users for creating regional groups and networks. Though the reason given by him is that certain networks have grown too large (some over a million networkers) and hence privacy becomes an issue among them.
But in a way something good is being done by removing regional networks. In a way he is planning to remove regional barriers and create a truly global network.
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