MySpace is trying to make use of the Facebook privacy bashing by making its privacy setting simpler. MySpace, the other social network pushed to the background since Facebook started its ascendancy, is trying to hard woo users.
In today’s press release MySpace announced the new and simpler privacy settings. By default, MySpace visibility settings will be to “friends only”. Users can change it to other options later if they wish. The press release said
We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and privacy, and never push our users to an uncomfortable privacy position. That’s why we give our users control over their data, following the fundamentals of notice and choice. We provide clear privacy settings, allowing not only restrictions on who can view their profile data, but also age restrictions to allow age separation of older and younger users.
The new privacy settings will include age based restrictions, for example, a user can make his or her profile public to anyone 18 or over (in addition to making a user’s profile public or friends only).
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