Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday several new features that the popular social network will be unveiling. The first is called Download Your Information, which lets each Facebook user download anything they have ever done on the site, including photos and wall posts. A second tool keeps track of your application usage and makes it simple to delete them. The final feature however is very exciting to Facebook users. Each user will have the ability to create groups—for instance, colleagues or family. If you upload a video of your family vacation, you can set it so only your relatives see it---and not anyone else. This increases the level of control you have over who sees your profile and information. In addition to this, group chats will be available, supplementing the one-on-one instant messaging that already exists.
The only hesitation that comes with this new Group feature, is that it exists similarly to being tagged in a photo. If someone invites you to a group, you are automatically a member until you opt-out. Thus you can become a member of a group under your own control, but also because someone else has invited you to. Many are saying that Group invitations should be established like a friend request—where you have the option to approve it before you are a member.
To read more about these features, visit Computer World.
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