Privacy and Facebook

Like Morgan posted earlier this week, Facebook is changing its privacy settings soon! I read a New York Times article today stating that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg officially announced these new privacy features. These new features are "simpler" to use because many users don't know how to access these privacy settings. In the article I found it really shocking that "experts and analysts said that few of the site’s 400 million members were aware of them". It would be nice to know the exact number, but 'few' shows that innocent people are having their privacy taken away from them and they don't even know it.

In the article, Zuckerberg states that privacy, "is something we take very seriously". If it is something that is so important, why did it take them so long to make these changes easy for all the users?


Since the majority of us use facebook, do you use any privacy settings? Why or why not?

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