Jeremy Ports #10

Facebook Solves 'Embarrassing Photos Problem' [informationweek.com]

Facebook now has a solution for members who want to, say, post pictures of their drunken revelry at a New Year's bash but don't want their bosses looking at them.
The social networking site announced Wednesday that it's implementing a number of changes to its privacy settings in an effort to make it easier for members to control who can see which pieces of information.
Scaling applications is always a challenge. Now magnify that across a distributed network (the Internet) and add billions of data queries -- that's the challenge that Facebook has, and they discuss how they are dealing with it."Facebook is transforming the world's ability to control its information online by empowering more than 350 million people to personalize the audience for each piece of content they share," said Facebook communications VP Elliot Schrage, in a statement.
The biggest change is that Facebook has added a tool that lets users easily select privacy settings for literally each post they place on the social networking site.
Via a new dropdown menu, users can specify whether the post should be made to the general public, all their Facebook friends, or a list of particular friends, family members, or work colleagues.
Facebook also launched a new "transition tool" to guide members through the new settings.
"We've always designed Facebook to enable people to control what information they share with whom—it's the main reason our service continues to attract such a broad and diverse group of users from around the world. We're proud of the latest evolution we're announcing today and we will continue to innovate to serve users' changing needs," said Schrage.

I think this feature is allowing people to continue to act the way that they do. Some things are very inappropriate for even the internet and with these implimented privacy settings it is going to allow people to act out even more. This is an example of social control because it is allowing some people to get away with more things than they should be. Although 'friends' with somebody, that somebody may not be able to see what is really going on in the page.