Facebook to introduce "simplistic" privacy bands

After the huge backlash regarding Facebook's confusing privacy settings, Facebook is poised to introduce "simplistic" settings that show privacy bands. But will it work? And would they have done this if there wasn't a huge fuss?

In a radio interview, head of public policy Tim Sparapani said that: "Now we’ve heard from our users that we have gotten a little bit complex. I think we are going to work on that. We are going to be providing options for users who want simplistic bands of privacy that they can choose from and I think we will see that in the next couple of weeks."

Read more here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-simple-privacy-choices/#ixzz0oK6cMzcI

During the interview Sparapani defended Facebook's privacy settings and said that it was better than having none at all, and the reason why there were so many settings was because every element of information could be adjusted to a certain level of privacy.