Alec Saunders has 1,400 people he calls “friends,” at least on Facebook. Some are truly friends from his real life — many are business contacts, and some are people he met online. Until today, Saunders — who founded Iotum, developer of the popular Free Conference Calling application for Facebook — had little way of segmenting his friends and regulating what they could see. Now, thanks to new privacy controls the popular social networking site introduced on Wednesday, he can do just that.
Facebook Gives New Heft to Privacy Promise
Posted by: Erika Morphy March 19, 2008 01:11 PMAlec Saunders has 1,400 people he calls “friends,” at least on Facebook. Some are truly friends from his real life — many are business contacts, and some are people he met online. Until today, Saunders — who founded Iotum, developer of the popular Free Conference Calling application for Facebook — had little way of segmenting his friends and regulating what they could see. Now, thanks to new privacy controls the popular social networking site introduced on Wednesday, he can do just that.