Oh, Facebook has changed its privacy settings again – TechCrunch

Always mindful of its users, Facebook has determined that its privacy settings need to be tweaked slightly to keep things clear and easy to find. To this end, they have taken the settings from “privacy settings” and mischievously dispersed them among the other categories.

“We’ve redesigned our entire settings menu on mobile devices from top to bottom to make things easier to find. Instead of having settings spread across nearly 20 different screens, they are now accessible from one place, ”Facebook wrote in a blog post announcing the changes.

Oh, sorry – it’s from 2018, when they centralized privacy settings to make them easier to find. This is today’s one about decentralizing them to a bunch of different places.

“Settings are now grouped into six broad categories, each containing several related settings: account, preferences, audience and visibility, permissions, your information and community standards, and legal policies… We have unbundled the privacy settings category and moved them around. settings previously contained within it in other categories.

Pictured: Facebook unbundling its privacy settings into new categories.

Which of these categories do you think privacy settings fall into? Facebook “renamed them to better match people’s mental models,” so that should be obvious. Just use your mental model.

If your answer is “all, maybe”, congratulations, you get it! Now, if you want to update your privacy settings, all you need to do is visit all of these new categories and subcategories individually. Any of them can have a crucial seesaw inside – it’s like a scavenger hunt!

Oldest to newest Facebook settings page. Which do you prefer? Image credits: TechCrunch

We’re kidding, but Facebook has also made the “Privacy Control” element much more important in this update. This “guided review” may give the business the opportunity to use dark models that distract users from less desirable (business) privacy choices, but certainly go through most of the more important settings and allow people to edit them.

“We’re confident that this new settings page will make it easier for users to visit their settings, find what they came for and make whatever changes they want,” Facebook writes. We’ll all find out one way or another later today, when the redesign rolls out for iOS, Android, mobile web, and FB Lite.