As reported by Huffingtonpost, Facebook has been busy making privacy and sharing changes. There are 6 big changes, to be exact,
Basically this.
and we’ve got everything you need to know about them right here:
- Tag non-friended users and non-liked pages
Instead of having to like every page/person you’d like to tag, tagging just about everything is now an option. But you don’t have to worry about spammers tagging you (which, we admit, already happens quite often), due to the next privacy change:
- Control who tags you
This is a cool one, but it could get tedious after a while. When someone tags you, you can either approve the tag–and make you/your page into a linkable tag–or you can deny it, which would leave your name/page name in plain text.
- Control who sees your posts while you’re posting
Instead of dealing with privacy settings in your ‘account settings’ tab, Facebook will now allow you to edit the individual privacy settings of each status update/photo/whatever. You can make certain posts only available to certain users, and vice versa.
- More tag-removing options
Once you remove a tag, you’ll be able to proceed with a few options: blocking the person/page from tagging you, making it a one time thing. It’s a nice feature, since you won’t want to permanently block some tags (like from family members!).
- View your profile from others’ perspectives
This is another sweet feature: you’ll be able to view your profile from a non-friend point of view. It’s good to know what your security settings look like in real-time, and this is the feature to do it with.
- ‘Everyone’ becomes ‘Public’
No, this change isn’t as major as you think. It’s a matter of semantics: the ‘Everyone’ option you see before posting status updates will simply be changed to ‘Public’. Not a big deal, but something that will probably set off paranoid users.
There you have it. These changes aren’t as big as FB chat video calling, but we’ll gladly take them.