Announcement: Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users’ Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends”

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2014-05-22T11:24:25-06:00

After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”. It will also start asking existing users to go through a “Privacy Checkup” flow where they can review and confirm their privacy settings. The changes should reduce the number of users…