Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has endured criticism from users for weeks on the company’s privacy setting changes. Today, he admitted to his mistake in an editorial column in the Washington Post.
However, some industry observers are doubtful about the suggested changes that have been outlined. He wrote in the editorial, "Sometimes we move too fast -- and after listening to recent concerns, we're responding."
"Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted," "We just missed the mark."
He also shared that the company is planning to introduce simpler privacy settings along with as easy way to disable all third party services.
The editor-in-chief of Mashable, a social media blog, Adam Ostrow said that while Zuckerberg has acknowledged the public outcry, he hasn’t done enough to satisfy the most vocal critics.
"I think what he's done here is essentially acknowledge that there's been a lot of discussion recently about Facebook and privacy issues," said Ostrow. "But it really falls short of saying anything significant."
Some users have been extremely critical of the networking company’s intention to move users towards more openness. In one instance, user’s data was shared with a website without permission from the user. Likewise another feature recommended users to make their personal information like personal interest and activities a public domain.
As per Ostrow, Zuckerberg’s column failed to address the most highly debated features of Facebook that have been introduced and Facebook doesn’t seem to have any plans to roll it back immediately. He also said that users would be keen to know what Facebook would do with the data and the company has not yet provided that information.
At the Facebook developers conference few weeks ago Zuckerberg had announced a several changes by increasing Facebook’s presence on other sites.
