Public By Default

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

Facebook announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.

Private was an important part of the Facebook experience (for me, anyway) and I don't really understand the reason for the change.

I suspect they could end up with the same kind of backlash that occurred when they made changes to privacy settings and terms of service.


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