Openbook's proposed Privacy Controls for Facebook

Facebook's privacy options are little-used and overcomplicated

Facebook has a bewildering number of privacy settings.

As Openbook shows, this results in many users sharing private details of their lives with the entire planet, without their knowledge or permission.

We think Facebook could do better...

We say: make privacy clear

Facebook should add a prominent privacy control to everyone's home page.

It's simple and it instantly communicates your privacy settings.

More detail with just a click

Clicking the slider shows a quick breakdown of your current privacy settings.

Dragging to the right makes everything public

Dragging to the right makes everything public. Dragging to the left makes everything private.

Simple. Just how it should be.

As fine grained as you need

Users can still customize their settings in detail.

Facebook should publicly commit to never moving the user's slider to the right without their express permission.

It's up to you,

tell Facebook they need to:

• Make it easy to control and understand your privacy settings.

• Promise that they won't change them behind your back.

• Make new accounts private by default.

Tell your friends

Demand control!