I have not had a chance to read through Facebook’s new privacy policy or to check my own settings, but I will do so soon. I suggest you review it as well, because in the shift to the new policy, Facebook has instituted some “recommended” settings that might end up making you share more than you’d like.
I hope to blog about this next week, but for now, I’ll send you off to the Electronic Frontier Federation’s article on the Facebook policy.
The short version - it’s your responsibility to guard your own privacy and choose your own settings. You might want to share everything with everyone. You might not. But make sure YOU make that choice.
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Greg:
If I remember correctly, unless you change a certain cetting, FB will share your address and phone # with all! Horror of horrors! Of course, now people can find everything hidden somewhere online anyway
I read about this a few days ago. I have opted to go “facebook-less” and ride out the storm of “how can you NOT be on FB?” questions that follow. It’s been 3 months, now, since I quit. (and yes, at first I felt like I needed a 12 step program!)
That being said, if I were still on there, I would look VERY closely at the new FB policies. I share a lot on the internet anyway – but I share it by choice. I don’t want to share it by default.