Days after the new privacy policy was updated, Facebook on Thursday made a slight change to a new Friends List setting.
Initially, users had the option to check a box so that their friends would not be able to see everyone on their friends’ list. Those lists, however, were considered “publicly available” by Facebook, so people who were not logged in could see them.
This caused an uproar from the users and prompted several complaints and feed backs. Facebook promptly made the change and let it known through their recent blog.
“Now when you uncheck the “Show my friends on my profile” option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won’t appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while logged into Facebook or logged out. This information is still publicly available, however, and can be accessed by applications,” Facebook wrote in its blog post.
So, i want to let you know that your Friends list is not public after all or anymore.
Let us know how you feel about the recent privacy settings update.
[Source: Facebook blog]
