Facebook Removes Regional Network Privacy and Visibility Settings

Yesterday afternoon Facebook posted about how the site is growing beyond regional networks and how networks will no longer be part of the privacy settings. The rationale is that the company has grown beyond it’s previous boundaries and as such, “these networks too often represent large geographical areas—sometimes entire countries—that no longer accurately reflect people’s real-world connections”.

While I personally understand the challenges of managing geographic data, it seems strange that Facebook would eliminate regional networks.