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Facebook Simplifying Privacy Settings

In a move to streamline, settings that "didn't mean much," like whether your profile can be found through a search, will be removed

Reason Staff | 12.12.2012 2:44 PM

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Get ready -- Facebook is making changes to how users access its privacy settings, again. The social network hopes this latest overhaul will make the now bloated process easier to understand, according to a blog post today from Sam Lessin, a director of product for Facebook.

The changes, which come a day after Facebook implemented its new privacy polices, are mainly cosmetic. Facebook is not changing what settings you can set, except for the option to block searches of your profile within the social network. The network has already begun phasing out this feature and soon it will be removed from everyone's profiles.

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