Facebook asks users to personalize privacy

Facebook is transforming the worlds ability to control its information online by empowering more than 350 million people to personalize the audience for each piece of content they share, said Elliot Schrage,Vice President of Communications,Public Policy and Marketing. Weve always designed Facebook to enable people to control what information they share with whomits the reason our service continues to attract such a broad and diverse group of users from around the world. Were proud of the latest evolution were announcing today and we will continue to innovate to serve users changing needs.

The tools launching today are part of Facebooks continuing innovation and a response to requests from both users and experts. Different versions of these suggestions were developed and tested extensively since the beginning of this year. The resulting new features include added control for each piece of content users share,simplified privacy settings,help in choosing settings,and expanded privacy education materials.