According to Facebook’s official blog, Facebook has rolled out a wider variety of access levels to the users as they publish any new story to their Walls.

Different types of privacy settings has thus be available for the users when they want to post new story or content via the third-party Facebook apps. For instance, after a user is getting a result from participated to a Facebook app, if he / she want to publish the findings to the Wall including friends’ Walls, he / she can now select and apply different privacy setting on a case by case basis.

As shown in the below picture, few of the privacy controls such as share information to everyone, friends of friends or only friends and even any customization to be made are available from now on.

Facebook Apps Privacy

Basically, this little privacy change can be viewed as being about making things easier for users. While we do not know how many users have really dive in and taking time to alter the default privacy controls as found on the privacy settings page (Facebook has amounted to 400 million users up to date), these new privacy controls allow users to start customize privacy for each piece of content they share on Facebook provided that they did not go through any “Posts by Me” setting on the privacy settings page.

Additionally, these privacy controls will also be applied to external Web sites that linked to Facebook via Facebook Connect and Facebook’s mobile version. Also, be prepared that you will start to receive emails directly from the Facebook apps, although many users have no problem sharing their email addresses on Facebook or even on the Web.

Facebook email privacy setting

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