Facebook brings in new feature to let users lock profiles from non-friends

Facebook on Thursday launched a new feature in India that will allow users to lock their profile, in which non-friends will not be able to view the user’s full size profile picture and see any of their posts.

The feature is designed for people in India, especially women, who want more control over their Facebook experience, the firm said.

Locking a profile would enable users to apply multiple existing privacy settings and several new features to their Facebook profiles.

With a locked profile, non-friends will not be able to zoom into, share or download the user’s full-size profile picture and