With the dawn of social media, privacy has become a major concern for almost all Internet users, especially since the revelations that the government has the power to intrude in people's personal lives.

On Friday, Facebook updated its privacy settings with an expanded tool intended to limit the audience of each post. The default setting of a post is set to be available only to the friends of the user. Furthermore, a blue cartoon dinosaur will be constantly popping up in the feed to remind the Facebook user to check his or her privacy settings. Users will also be given the option to review past posts in the case that they would like to hide some of them from the public.

The social media platform leader decided to create the privacy update after recognizing the gravity of the situation wherein someone might accidentally share something with the public that is meant to be shared only to a small group of friends. By making the default privacy setting to only friends, such situation can be averted. According to Fox News, Raylene Yung, who is the engineering manager of Facebook, says that the tool is a result of user feedback and the company's decision to improve its overall user experience. Facebook further added that users are more worried nowadays about what they share, especially if they accidentally make a post available for people who are not meant to see it.

With this update, Facebook aims for the user to have more power and control in their hands. The way privacy works on the social media website will practically remain the same, except that both the company and the users are now more aware about privacy issues. Facebook has been familiar with matters of privacy since its inception and now is the best time to make privacy and security tighter for the company to maintain the public's trust and loyalty.