Mark Zuckerberg plans to make Facebook more private with 6 key changes

While broader social networks have their place Zuckerberg cites finding communities, fundraisers, and growing businesses as examples the focus should be on private interactions.

While sharing on Facebook initially felt like posting something on a bulletin board for friends and family to see, recent scandals have shown us the consequences of public sharing.

At the same time, encryption makes it more difficult to catch bad people doing bad things, so the company is exploring ways to detect patterns of activity or use other means to catch bad actors even with encryption.

While Facebook plans to encrypt all its messaging services in the near future, it wont do so until its discussed out how to stop bad actors with an encrypted system.

Of course, some peoplewant to look at their old photos, so Facebook will have to find a way to reduce permanence without eliminating Facebooks memory lane uses.

This interoperability would allow you to, for example, sell something on Facebooks Marketplace and respond in WhatsApp without giving away your phone number.

Zuckerberg acknowledges this approach will lead to its apps being blocked in some countries; Facebooks efforts to break into the Chinese market come to mind.

Whether its turning a new leaf because it has to or has truly had a change of heart, lets hope Facebook changes for the better.