Facebook redesign to give users more control
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc. is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials said late on Sunday.
Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it is cracking down on applications that violate privacy or user-control guidelines.
"Users should have control of their information when and where they want," said Ben Ling, the head of Facebook's platform product management. "Users should share things because they want to share them."
Facebook will offer members a cleaner and simpler set of the Web pages which make up personal profiles. These profiles, which can be organized into tabbed pages, let users share tidbits of their lives with select groups of friends or colleagues.
Previously, members could edit largely static parts of their profiles such as birth date, education or music interests.
"Facebook is making significant changes, both in terms of what information gets prominence and what gets buried," said Gartner analyst Ray Valdes, adding that the changes may seem abrupt to many users.
"The company is trying to eliminate some of the toxic threats to the Facebook experience."
（路透舊金山20日電）Facebook公司主管今天晚間表示， 這個全世界最大的社群交友網站正在進行大幅革新，目標將讓使用者獲得更多掌控權，也可以遏阻新型態的垃圾郵件。
Facebook網站改版的目標是，透過允許新增訊息擁有更為顯著的版面，讓使用者個人檔案變得具備更高互動功能，同時Facebook也正全力掃蕩觸犯隱私權或使用者管理規範的應用程式。
Facebook平台產品管理部主管林格（Ben Ling）指出：「使用者應該能隨時隨地擁有個人資訊管理權，使用者應該在想分享資訊的情況下才進行資訊分享」。
Facebook將提供會員更為乾淨清爽的個人資料網頁版面。這些可以用標籤來歸類的個人檔案資料，可以讓使用者與特定族群的朋友或同事分享個人生活點滴訊息。中央社（翻譯）
making sweeping changes = 進行大幅革新
said late on Sunday = 今天晚間表示
cracking down on = 全力掃蕩
violate privacy = 觸犯隱私權
the head of Facebook's platform product management = 產品管理部主管
making significant changes = 做了一個很重大有意義的改變
eliminate = 消除 [i'limineit]
both in terms of what information gets prominence and what gets buried
prominence = 突起,突出,突出物
buried: [ 'berid ]
v. 埋葬
a. 埋入的(沉没的)
] 
