{"id":19336,"date":"2011-08-30T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:57:25","slug":"facebook-adds-more-google-style-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-adds-more-google-style-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adds more Google+ style privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major advantages of <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/\">Google+<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> is that you can select who does and does not see your status updates courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/+\/bin\/static.py?hl=en&amp;page=guide.cs&amp;guide=1257347&amp;rd=1\">Circles<\/a>. Facebook has responded by making it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/about\/sharing\">much easier<\/a> to do exactly the same. Although it was possible previously, it involved messing around with settings, wasn&#8217;t as customisable and wasn&#8217;t as conveniently located.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can access everything from your status update box:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19403\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-adds-more-google-style-privacy\/privacy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19403\" title=\"facebook new privacy\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/privacy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/privacy.png 326w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/privacy-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a>Now when you write a status update, you can select exactly which friends see it and even specify certain people you want to hide it from:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19354\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-adds-more-google-style-privacy\/facebook-4-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19354\" title=\"facebook new sharing privacy\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/facebook-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/facebook-4.png 442w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/facebook-4-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a>The only thing missing is the ability to create custom groups of contacts that you regularly want to share things with &#8211; in other words &#8216;Facebook Circles&#8217; \u00e0 la Google+.<\/p>\n<p>This change follows on just days after Facebook&#8217;s decision to allow users to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/Facebook-Tag-Approve-Remove-Posts,news-12280.html\">approve photos of them before they are tagged<\/a>. It&#8217;s good to see that Facebook is finally taking privacy more seriously. It&#8217;s just a shame that it&#8217;s taken the arrival of a major competitor in the form of Google+ to make it do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major advantages of Google+ over Facebook is that you can select who does and does not see your status updates courtesy of Circles. Facebook has responded by making it much easier to do exactly the same. Although it was possible previously, it involved messing around with settings, wasn&#8217;t as customisable and wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-adds-more-google-style-privacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook adds more Google+ style privacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-19336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334118,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions\/334118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}