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Big Changes Coming to Facebook

by Alex Schleifer
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Zuckerberg’s open letter on why regional networks are being wiped off the map.

Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter today about some possibly far reaching changes: the phasing out of regional networks. This will affect over half of the 350 million Facebook users. While sites like Twitter seem to be releasing a feature a year, Facebook has been experimenting with different designs and features at what some may consider an alarming pace.

I personally respect a company with such scale taking the risk to improve their product with radical changes. And make no mistake, removing regional networks is quite potentially the biggest change Facebook has made since opening up registration to the world.

The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.

We’re adding something that many of you have asked for—the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we’ll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July.

Mark Zuckerberg

It will be interesting to see what Facebook purists make of this. With a userbase the size of the US population even a minority of complaints can turn into a flood. Zuckerberg very carefully points out the reasoning and benefits but this may be a tough sell for some.

post authorAlex Schleifer

Alex Schleifer
Alex is CEO of Sideshow , an award winning creative agency. You can read his blog here.

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