After Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, said privacy is no longer a ‘social norm’, Facebook changed its privacy policy and set default privacy settings of most user personal data as “public” without their consent. Facebook has been criticized drastically for this change and was forced to improve its privacy settings. And now Facebook says the new settings are much better and easier.

It is a known fact that people are the weakest link in the security chain. Strong privacy settings should be supported with the wisdom of users. They need to known possible threats and how to protect themselves. Considering Facebook, it is inevitable to keep friends list “secure”. That means one should add a person to his friend list if only he is sure about the identity of this person. This is critical because Facebook’s privacy protection system is mostly based on this distinction.
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