After repeated requests from users, Facebook has changed its privacy settings. To make the system more simple, now the user has three options of who to share their profile with: friends only, friends of friends, or with everyone. More information about the changes can be found by clicking on this link. This urge to change the settings came from concerns that information on Facebook was too easily accessible.A total stranger can find out a great deal about someone by simply searching their name and clicking on their Facebook page. This ease of access is dangerous, there are people in the world who could do numerous horrible things with this information, one could only imagine what those things are. Facebook's new policy helps the problem, but does not completely get rid of it. To view someone's profile, they simply have to be added as a friend. Many people do not think whether they know the person or not before accepting a friend request.
This problem is not entirely Facebook's fault. The amount of information put out on a Facebook page is decided by the user. Personally, I no longer use Facebook, but almost everyone I know does. The advice I have for users is: be careful what you put on the internet because you never know who is looking at it.
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