Systems and methods for digital privacy controls
Systems and methods for creating and maintaining digital privacy controls may include (1) providing a composition-creation interface that enables a user to create a social media composition, (2) additionally providing a privacy-settings interface that enables the user to select an audience for the social media composition, (3) displaying, within the privacy-settings interface, a slider element that may be used to select a size of the audience, where sliding the slider element in a first direction decreases a size of the audience and sliding the slider element in a second direction increases the size of the audience, and (4) configuring the size of the audience based on a position of the slider element. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
providing a composition-creation interface that enables a user to create a social media composition;
additionally providing a privacy-settings interface that enables the user to select an audience for the social media composition;
displaying, within the privacy-settings interface, a slider element that may be used to select a size of the audience, where sliding the slider element in a first direction decreases a size of the audience and sliding the slider element in a second direction increases the size of the audience; and
configuring the size of the audience based on a position of the slider element.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving user input that slides the slider element into the position.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising additionally displaying, within the privacy-settings interface, a plurality of selectable elements, each of which corresponds to a different group of the user's contacts with a shared attribute.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the shared attribute comprises an association with at least one of:
a location;
a school;
a spoken language; or
a place of employment.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , further comprising:
receiving user input selecting one or more of the selectable elements; and
configuring the audience to only include contacts who belong to a group whose corresponding selectable element was selected by the user input.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , further comprising sliding the slider element into the position in response to receiving the user input selecting one or more of the selectable elements.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising posting the social media composition to the audience of the configured size.
8. A system comprising:
a composition-creation module, stored in memory, that provides a composition-creation interface that enables a user to create a social media composition;
a privacy module, stored in memory, that:
provides a privacy-settings interface that enables the user to select an audience for the social media composition; and
displays, within the privacy-settings interface, a slider element that may be used to select a size of the audience, where sliding the slider element in a first direction decreases a size of the audience and sliding the slider element in a second direction increases the size of the audience;
an audience-selection module, stored in memory, that configures the size of the audience based on a position of the slider element; and
at least one physical processor configured to execute the composition-creation module, the privacy module, and the audience-selection module.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the privacy module additionally receives user input that slides the slider element into the position.
10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the privacy module additionally displays, within the privacy-settings interface, a plurality of selectable elements, each of which corresponds to a different group of the user's contacts with a shared attribute.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the shared attribute comprises an association with at least one of:
a location;
a school;
a spoken language; or
a place of employment.
12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the privacy module further:
receives user input selecting one or more of the selectable elements; and
configures the audience to only include contacts who belong to a group whose corresponding selectable element was selected by the user input.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the privacy module further slides the slider element into the position in response to receiving the user input selecting one or more of the selectable elements.
14. The system of claim 8 , wherein a posting module posts the social media composition to the audience of the configured size.
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:
provide a composition-creation interface that enables a user to create a social media composition;
additionally provide a privacy-settings interface that enables the user to select an audience for the social media composition;
display, within the privacy-settings interface, a slider element that may be used to select a size of the audience, where sliding the slider element in a first direction decreases a size of the audience and sliding the slider element in a second direction increases the size of the audience; and
configure the size of the audience based on a position of the slider element.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the computer-readable instructions further cause the computing device to receive user input that slides the slider element into the position.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the computer-readable instructions further cause the computing device to additionally display, within the privacy-settings interface, a plurality of selectable elements, each of which corresponds to a different group of the user's contacts with a shared attribute.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the shared attribute comprises an association with at least one of:
a location;
a school;
a spoken language; or
a place of employment.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the computer-readable instructions further cause the computing device to:
receive user input selecting one or more of the selectable elements; and
configure the audience to only include contacts who belong to a group whose corresponding selectable element was selected by the user input.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the computer-readable instructions further cause the computing device to post the social media composition to an audience of the configured size.