Clint's Web Marketing Blog

With the recent announcement that Facebook's new privacy settings are going live, many people are worried about sharing too much information. Fears that Facebook profiles have gone from a safe, private place, to one which is not only public to the Facebook community, but to anyone who uses Google (aka EVERYONE) has many users concerned about the personal content they have shared with friends and family.

In reality, the new settings are not going to make a huge impact on any user's experience. Instead, it is going to make it easier to share certain information with only certain people. For example, if you would like to send a message to only a certain group of friends, you will be able to with a simple option that will be next to the "share" button. Or, if you want to share a link (to your own website or blog, for example) you can easily make it public to the world and search engines.

Until this new option, it has been very difficult for Facebook users to separate posts that would be useful to all Internet users from posts that only their friends need to see.

So, instead of being worried about the new privacy settings, realize three things: 1.) Facebook would not do anything that would jeopardize their user-base. 2.) You won't have to read what random people had for lunch (as on Twitter). And 3.) This option makes Facebook an even more valuable web marketing and link-building tool.