More Ways to Share in the Publisher | Facebook

UPDATE on June 24: We've received some questions in the comments about default privacy settings for this beta. Nothing has changed with your default privacy settings. The beta is only open to people who already chose to set their profile and status privacy to "Everyone." For those people, the default for sharing from the Publisher will be the same. If you have your default privacy set to anything elseâ€"such as "Friends and Networks" or "Friends Only"â€"you are not part of this beta.

Today, we're launching a beta version of an improved Publisherâ€"the main place to add content such as photos, videos, and status updates on your home page and profile. The new Publisher has been streamlined a bit, and its most significant improvement is the new Publisher Privacy Control that gives you the opportunity to answer the question, "Who do you want to tell?" as easily as you answer the question, "What's on your mind?"

You may have some posts you want to share with a wide audience, such as whom you voted for or how great the weather is today. Other times you may have more personal updates like your new phone number or an invitation to join you at your favorite restaurant for dinner that are meant for only close or nearby friends.

If you have access to this beta version, every time you publish content into your stream you are able to control which people can access that specific piece of content. After writing a status, uploading a photo or creating other content from the Publisher, use the lock icon in the lower-right corner of the Publisher to access the drop-down menu. From there, you can then choose to make the post visible to:

• Everyone: Anyone, on or off, of Facebook can see it.


• Friends and Networks: People you have confirmed as friends and people in any school or work networks that you've joined can see it.


• Friends of Friends: Anyone who is friends with a friend of yours can see it.


• Friends: Only people you have confirmed as friends can see it.


• Custom: Choose any friend or Friend List to include or exclude from seeing that piece of content.

For example, you might be comfortable with anyone enjoying the video you took at a concert, but only want your family to see photos from your family vacation. So you can choose to share the video with "Everyone" while selecting "Custom" for the photo album and choosing your Friend List for your family.

Additionally, when you add a new friend, you'll begin to start seeing posts they have set to "Everyone" before they have confirmed you as a friend.

People who had previously set their status updates and profile privacy settings to be visible to "Everyone" are included in this beta launch, but we hope to expand this to more of you soon.

Ola, an engineer at Facebook, is publishing his thoughts to everyone.

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