3 Big Changes from Facebook

Facebook unveiled three new features designed to help users to better control the information they share via Facebook.
The social networking site revamped its Groups feature, created a new tool called ‘’Download your Information’’and updated its dashboard to allow users to better understand what data their Facebook applications are using.
"Download Your Information" lets you…. "quickly download to your computer everything you've ever posted on Facebook and all your correspondences with friends: your messages, Wall posts, photos, status updates and profile information."
The revamped of the dashboard took place to "give you visibility into how applications use your data to personalize your experience," because "As you start having more social and personalized experiences across the web, it's important that you can verify exactly how other sites are using your information to make your experience better."
The ‘Groups’ feature" is designed to allow users to share information from pictures to status updates with only a limited cluster of Facebook friends. Facebook’s stated that "With new Groups, we made it easy for you to build a space for important groups of people in your life—your family, your soccer team, your book club." Facebook added, "When a group member posts to the group, everyone in the group will receive a notification about that post."

All these changes represent a shift from Facebook allowing to users to take more control of their content and will be viewed as popular. Certainly the Groups feature has been highly promoted by Facebook. The only concern that may arise is that friends can add people to a group, so if you create a group and are in a group you have to be aware of not only who you add but who others add.