Facebook makes welcome change
Well, Facebook, it’s about time. ‘Course this is the usual type of action with Facebook. Introduce some poor interface along with a major change(s), receive massive dissatisfaction from the user base, probably sell some stuff to advertisers, then roll back a fraction of the major changes with some new functionality.
On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Facebook’s vice president of product Chris Cox announced that starting tomorrow, Facebook will be rolling out “drastically simplified” and improved privacy controls. He didn’t give any details, but did suggest that they should alleviate some of the recent privacy problems Facebook has faced.
Ever since the recent wave of privacy backlash began following Facebook’s f8 conference, Facebook has been saying they were listening to feedback and would respond. No less than CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been talking about the issues very publicly. He has said they “missed the mark” and “made a bunch of mistakes.” He also has said they are working on a “simpler way to control your information.”
That starts tomorrow, apparently. Stay tuned for more details.
Amazing to me that Facebook keeps getting away with this. Do they ever stop?