Facebook Profiles Becoming More Accessible

In 2004, Facebook was only accessible to a limited amount of college students. These days, Facebook is used by everyone from companies to parents, from students to political figures. Nevertheless, Facebook still had its differentiations from widely public sites like Twitter. Facebook was still separated by different networks (schools, companies and cities, for example), but not for long.

According to CNet, “Facebook’s new controls will be more streamlined so as to offer easier and simpler controls about how much everything from entire profiles to individual pieces of content are shared. Users will be introduced to this through “transition tools” that allow them to toggle how open everything on their profile will be–totally public, friends-only, restricted to company or school networks, etc.”. Additionally, without the road blocks of networks, and unless privacy settings are instilled, content can be accessed from all over the web. CNet states, “Facebook would be tweaking its “publisher,” the toolbar that lets members update their status messages or post content like individual photos and videos. The “publisher” will now have a privacy toggle for individual pieces of content, letting a user choose whether to make them available to friends only, custom friend groups, or–for the first time–to the Web at large”. How will these changes affect the way in which people use Facebook?