Now the users might be creating all the fuss with the new privacy settings which Facebook rolled out right after reaching a milestone, thinking it would help the transition. But the CEO is taking it up and leading from the front as he opens his profile to everyone. That by no means should mean that Mark Zuckerberg is confused about how exactly those settings work around, rather it just shows that it is time more profiles should become public. And of course without really creating a brouhaha.

Now the social network revolutionized connecting online with friends by promoting privacy, but it was only a matter of time before it moved over to being more public. I mean hasn’t it always been encouraging quite a lot of our information being made available to the eyes of the search engines? Well those were and only a few users actually pay heed to keep their profiles hidden from the search engines. But with the new transition tool, things are a bit different. How? Well with this update all that you share or post on your profile is visible to everyone and in case you really need to get rid of this, you need to go through the pain to customize accessibility.

When I said less users would actually take the pain to actually alter those settings, I was quite true. Over at RWW Scnitt made a good point by stating that only around 20% of the network users have actually changed their privacy settings and the remaining would be automatically be transitioned to sharing their content with everyone. Now, that shouldn’t be called default by any means. Ok, I agree and side when things are wrong [like here] but each user has the option to keep the old settings and if no one is making the effort to go through these and keep the old settings, it isn’t Facebook’s fault. Or is it?

I would be interested in learning how many of our readers have actually gone through the Transition and kept their information hidden from Everyone.

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