I found this article this morning and thought that others may benefit from it. Checkout Why Facebook Changed Its Privacy Settings.
One thing that I can’t really understand is why people go out on social sharing platforms (Facebook, Twitter, ect…) and then want to keep everything private? Doesn’t make sense to me. I understand wanting to keep a phone number, birthday, or address private. Other than that, the whole point of the thing is to share your thoughts, photos, status updates with others. It has me scratching my head?
Here is an additional link that I found today, Cnet Facebook Article. Hope this helps.
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I see, does anyone remember a few months back when facebook changed their privacy settings so that the default choice was ‘everyone’? I think they only did that with the intent to increase the number of pages visible in search engines and to all their users. They did this simply for money, because they knew that if more people saw more pages, they would make more money off of the advertisments. And they made this choice without caring for their users current privacy settings. But hey, what can you expect. Facebook is a corporation, and corporations make money.
I remember when this happened and there was much talk about just what you have brought up. I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I love that it connects with so many people and is easy. I hate that they just change things and make it almost impossible to figure out how to utilize new features.
I agree with you that it was most likely done to improve visibility and increase advertising. Like you say, it comes down to money.
Thanks for your comment. It is always great to hear other viewpoints.
Noo! Im using my iphone and I can’t seem to be able to access the page right. I will be back to read this later when I get home from lecture. The title looks like something I must read.
Risa,
Thanks for stopping. I haven’t tried viewing this on my iPhone yet. I will have to try that. I hope you find this helpful. It seems so confusing sometimes. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to assist.