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In late 2007, I wrote an article that a major issue with Facebook is that one could not control what one’s friends see after you authenticated them to your profile. It was a boolean expression: if they were your friend they could see everything or you could block them. I wrote:
I know a good number of people through various activities: professional, social (acquaintances), social (close friends), college alumni, internet blogging contacts, etc.
Different people I know should be privy to different personal information.
And that’s just the issue: I have many groups, but I cannot define my own groups, assign individual profiles I approve to a group I’ve defined and set the privacy settings per group. I must rely on the networks and groups created on Facebook or MySpace.
Facebook announced (must be logged in) that now one can create groups and give granular access to various components of your profile. Here’s a news article on the piece:
The new privacy controls will allow users to choose which of their friends can see information such as their photo albums, mobile phone number or e-mail address. Facebook users will also be able to share information about themselves with a wider group of people, thanks to a new “friends-of-friends” feature that is also expected to be available on Wednesday.
The really great part of this is that one can create groups (Friends List) under the Friends tab and then add it to the privacy restrictions (see below).
