Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently unveiled the new privacy settings for Facebook, while emphasizing that the company listens, though he said the response was blown out of proportion.
The new announced changes are set to not alter privacy settings whenever a new update comes out. We’re really going to try not to have another backlash, said Zuckerberg. Facebook is not a solved problem, there’s so much more we have to do.
Currently the cycle Facebook goes through after launching a new feature and changing the user policy results in shock due to the lack of warning, confusion and anger from the userbase and then a retroactive apology and modification by Facebook. A change would generally be in Facebook’s own self-interest, though the features remain mostly opt-out rather than the other way around.
“The kernel of what we do is that people want to stay connected,” said Zuckerberg. “There’s a view of the world that all information should stay private. That s not what the users have told us they want. We really do believe in privacy and giving people control.”
The key will be for Facebook to compartmentalize privacy and new features if both keep coming up simultaneously, there’s a real chance the social network could hurt itself in the long run.
Source: ZDNet
