Facebook got new privacy controls which I noticed earlier this week - though I haven't done anything with them yet - and really haven't tried to restrict who can see what aspect of my profile, I may do so in the future.
In Facebook Goes Pro: How To Use Facebook’s New Privacy Controls there's a step by step instruction guide by Nathan Snell over at The Technopian blog on how to enable the new Privacy controls to shape the way your profile looks to pretty much anyone you want - and people have been asking for this for a while now.
I've tried to break down my friends into 4 groups a few months ago
The problem is all I could do was segment friends - and that segmentation was manual so I'd have to re-edit the lists regularly to keep them up to date - something that's work and I haven't done it. I could not control, in a granular way, what each friend saw - not to the level I can do now.
I guess the next question is how much of the new Privacy features of Facebook will I actually use - and how widely adopted will they be?
It's one thing for me to look at my profile - but I don't see myself the same way others see me - so it might not occur to me to make some private or public the way it would to someone else - depending on their point of view.
That's why I'm wondering how much, at the end of the day, the new controls for Privacy will be used - or will it just be the domain of Facebook Power Users?
What do you think?
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