1. A method for enabling user privacy for content on a network, the method comprising: receiving input from a first user instructing at least one change in user access to shared content available over a network system, wherein the at least one change modifies the user access from an existing set of one or more users of the network system to a different set of one or more users of the network system; checking one or more privacy settings stored by a computer system and associated with each of one or more referred users of the network system who are referred to by the shared content, wherein the one or more referred users are different than the first user, each privacy setting selected by the associated referred user and indicating whether the associated referred user is to be sent a prompt requesting that the associated referred user provide a permission to allow the at least one change in user access to be performed; causing the prompt to be sent to each of the referred users who are associated with at least one privacy setting requiring the prompt; receiving, from at least a first referred user to whom the prompt was sent, an indication of a suggested set of one or more users for access to the shared content, wherein the suggested set of one or more users is different than the existing set of one or more users and the different set of one or more users; and changing the user access to the suggested set of one or more users of the network system in response to receiving permission from at least one second referred user to whom the prompt was sent other than the first referred user.