Facebook redesign to give users more control
July 29, 2008 |
Online social network Facebook is building in new levels of user control and privacy protection in response to the proliferation of spam and other intrusive marketing practices.
Facebook Inc. is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam.
Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it is cracking down on applications that violate privacy or user-control guidelines.
"Users should have control of their information when and where they want," said Ben Ling, the head of Facebook's platform product management. "Users should share things because they want to share them."
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