One user tells USA Today the settings will help keep “creepy people” away.
With Facebook simplifying its privacy policy, making it easier for users to digest sans legal language, the site’s users are generally appeased and plan to read them closely.
USA Today interviewed several users of the social network on the set of CBS show “Let’s Make a Deal” in Hollywood and the overwhelming response was that they paid attention to the changes. One Facebook user said she doesn’t want random strangers to view her photos or status updates and so, when Facebook updates its privacy measures, she applies them.
The updated settings let Facebook users determine which posts to share with friends and not publicly, prevent other users to post unwanted content on their timeline, as well as untag and unfriend and block users they want to avoid.
While most users were aware of the privacy settings, at least one that USA Today spoke with, admitted to ambivalence. However, Leisha Newtown of Ontario, Canada, also added it was “probably not a good way to go.”
Facebook users may care about the new privacy settings to a degree but per Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Re/Code’s Peter Kafka writes that in the overall scheme of things, there’s overwhelming notion that the social network uses the personal data to sell advertising. Those that are fundamentally opposed to this, simply leave Facebook – they don’t care for the privacy policy intricacies.
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