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May 22, 2014 05:01 pm GMT

Facebook Switches Default Setting to Private to Prevent Oversharing

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Facebook on Thursday reversed a 5-year-old decision to make the default sharing setting for new members public

From now 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. Read more...

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