Facebook
Switches Default Setting to
Private to
Prevent Oversharing
Facebook on Thursday reversed a 5-year-old decision to make the
Default sharing
Setting for new members public
From **w on, those who join the social network will find their postings automatically set to "friends." First-time posters will see a reminder to choose an audience for their first post. If they don't pick one, it will go to "friends."
Facebook made the change, it says, to protect users from oversharing. "We recognize that it is much worse for someone to accidentally share with everyone when they actually meant to share just with friends, compared with the reverse," the company wrote in a blog post.
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