Facebook lets members make profile elements wide open

16.03.2009
Facebook on Monday made it possible for members to lift privacy access controls from certain elements of their profiles, so that anyone on the social-networking site can see them.

With the announcement, Facebook is following through on an announcement made earlier this month in which it said that a number of members had requested this new capability.

Now, members will find the option of opening up to "everyone" their profile page and specific content types like status updates, links, Wall posts, photos and videos.

This will let anyone on Facebook view the elements that have an "everyone" privacy setting without having to be friends or share a common network with the person who is broadly exposing that content.

"This is an additional setting for those of you who wish to share with a broader audience," wrote Facebook engineer Mark Slee in .

This new access option is part of a larger effort by Facebook to blur and eventually dissolve the lines between personal profiles and its Pages marketing service.