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Facebook to launch three new major features - Rumour
Facebook is rumoured to be preparing three new major features for launch in coming months, involving a privacy filter for friend lists, group message broadcast functions and localised international settings. The new Friends List function has been positively received by the Facebook community, but received criticism for lacking comprehensive privacy settings. The new feature is believed to allow a range of privacy controls to be exercised, allowing users to set the visibility for their profile, uploaded photos, and installed apps using their Friend List as a basis for letting users choose what each group of their friends can see. The move would also make the site a more valid option for businesses that have so far been limited by the ability to prevent business clients and associates from seeing private Facebook data or information related to other clients.
The message broadcast service will remove the current cap on the size of group message broadcasts, allowing mass messaging to be used. The function was originally excluded from the site over privacy and intrusion fears, in that it would be abused as a marketing tool to push mass information. Facebook has not commented on how it will control use of the service to protect users although it is expected to be limited to use by group administrators and not usable for outside broadcast. Localisation efforts have been planned for months by Facebook, but it is now rumoured to be ready to begin rolling out a series of international versions, as well as a 'translation' service that will allow community members to personally translate and edit site pages for reading by foreign users.
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