Posts on Facebook will no longer be public

According to a statement from Facebook, new users' posts will be configured by default so that only their friends can see them and not the 1250 billion users of the social network.

Users could already determine with whom they want to share each section of their profile (statuses, photos, pages...), but before configuring it, Facebook left it public by default. Now, at the beginning, only friends can see them.

This public setting exposed user content to everyone except minors. From now on, with this change the opposite will happen; Anyone who wants their messages to be seen around the world will have to click on the "public" option, otherwise their data will remain in their circle of friends.

According to the social network advertisement, "the novelty is designed for people to ensure that they share content only with the people they want," and will be activated in the coming weeks and little by little depending on the geographical area.

Surely, this and other New developments in Facebook privacy are motivated by the series of controversies in which the social network has been involved regarding the protection of people's privacy.