Facebook had the youth hooked with their social networking already, and now Facebook is on it’s way in tapping the two potentially rewarding demographics: the adults and the rest of the world.

This week Facebook took on LinkedIn and other famous networking sites for professionals, giving them access to the latest privacy controls that lets users have better controls over who sees and surfs their profiles. Now a member can restrict whoever they choose who they want to restrict on a per photo basis. Sounds like an important tool for someone who doesn’t want their bosses to see photos of their extra curricular activities.

There are some features in the internet today that ordinary businessmen can use today, there’s this feature that is referred to as Web 2.0 that they can use to their advantage. LinkedIn has an average of 20 million users, having the best rate amongst the bunch. Now that Facebook is coming up with their new thing, the rating stat might change knowing Facebooks reputation as just a former college plaything four years ago that turned into a known business tool worldwide.

Facebook had not been giving users that much of toold to limit who sees their profiles, and how much they just want to show. The limit of such controls had been the main reason why the older peeps wouldn’t like or are hesitant to be a member of their social network. Knowing that the older peeps who are above 22 wants to keep firewalls in details that we don’t want others to see while having the option allowing close friends to access the whole of their profile.

Looking back, at first Facebook enabled students to collect one undifferentiated group of friends who had loose access to their profile. Later it has created two categories, the first would be those who can see your limited profile and those who can see everything in your profile. In December it allowed segregate members into groups like family, friends, friends from school, friends from work, non-friends who had persuaded you to befriend them on Facebook, etc. but then you coundn’t do much with those groups aside from sending them messages. But now there are more like close friends can have access to your photos or contact details, work colleagues can have access to your resume and portfolio and education background.

Facebook seemingly had learned from it’s past mistakes in its recent privacy controversy, which made it step back on launching a new feature that lets retailers alert friends when one of their members had bought something from their line of products. This feature doesn’t have direct connection to the controversy but it had been affected due to the purpose of focusing and giving importance to it’s member’s privacy.

Facebook’s privacy controls have yet to improve as Facebook’s managers from CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his word and made it clear that Facebook intents to diversify it’s privacy controls all the more giving them more control over their data.

Facebook already has a huge park of the market that has a rate of 68 million users worldwide, having two thirds of members from overseas. However, there are hundreds and millions more to conquer.

Now Facebook is starting to translate itself in other languages as to tap other countries. They have applied its standard software solution-centric approach to this concern. Engineers had gathered thousands of English phrases and words throughout the site for this preparation making each word or phrase as a translatable object. They are coming up with an application where in members will be invited to translate bits of text to be formed in another language. Members then can rate the translation creating a consensus pertaining to which translation is the best.

Facebook started first with Spanish. Having over 1,500 volunteers to have the job done in less than a month. Second would be German translation, that accumulated to 2,000 volunteers in less than two weeks. Then this early march, Facebook had began inviting French members to help out finishing the job in over a couple of days. Now a Facebook feature that was named “poke” became “dar un toque” in Spanish, “anklopfen” in German language, and “envoyer un poke” that is in French.

They have yet to conquer other languages and are trying to diversify catering even to the little ones like Uyghur or Yoruba.

Looking back lately amidst the recent negative news about Facebook, the size of Facebook members had tripled in the last year and this was just using the English language only. As it welcome the world of the non-English-speakers has high hopes of a fast growth and expand even more.

It has become more evident that Facebook is figuring out ways to meet the needs that varies from one individual to another just as an ordinary person would need in facing the real world.