Suggestion for FB (in case anyone's listening): The privacy setting for "Your status, photos, and posts" is overloaded, as it means two things:
1. The default privacy state for new content posted to your wall
2. The privacy state for accessing that area of your page on FB
I like to keep my default sharing state to a small group of people, and optionally expand the group of people I share to (e.g., create a new post and mark it "Friends of Friends"). I can't do that currently.
The only way to do this right now is keep my default state to a wide set of people, and frequently narrow down the group of people I share with. For me, it's backwards.
This is probably by design, but it'd help if "Posts by me" and "Default setting for posts, including status updates and photos" were not conflated into a single privacy setting.
From what I can see (I didn't work on this, so it is still a bit new to me as well), the settings revamp should resolve this conflict for you.
The default sharing state for new content remains for applications that don't implement the privacy controls, but content you post through the web site and the iPhone app will default to the privacy settings you last used and this is displayed more prominently so you know what it is before you post.
I may be missing something, but once it rolls out to you (starting soon), I think you will find that you will not need to manage a second global control about who can see your content - from then on the individual content item describes who should see it.
1. The default privacy state for new content posted to your wall
2. The privacy state for accessing that area of your page on FB
I like to keep my default sharing state to a small group of people, and optionally expand the group of people I share to (e.g., create a new post and mark it "Friends of Friends"). I can't do that currently.
The only way to do this right now is keep my default state to a wide set of people, and frequently narrow down the group of people I share with. For me, it's backwards.
This is probably by design, but it'd help if "Posts by me" and "Default setting for posts, including status updates and photos" were not conflated into a single privacy setting.