The Social Networking giant Facebook.com announced today that the privacy settings are going to be made much easier for people to understand and manage. After facing a firestorm of privacy complaints the announced a new ‘privacy pledge’ today. Much of the current outrage comes from Facebook’s functionality that shows the things you “Like” to random people on 3rd party websites such as CNN.com. A consumer group recently formed to encourage users to “quit Facebook” over these recent privacy issues.
“Sometimes we move too fast – and after listening to recent concerns, we’re responding,” wrote Mr Zuckerberg.
“The biggest message we have heard recently is that people want easier control over their information.
“Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark,” he wrote.
