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Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

mattmcb — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:22:26 -0000

I do love the thought of the SEO that can come out of this... something else that is cool is a new site that has popped up recently, sthrt.com, allows you to create public homepages of sites. That could be very interesting!

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

EmailBusiness — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:20:30 -0000

It's great for SEO and Traffic generation.
The search engines love my pages now.

I now have #1 spot on Google for "Facebook Income"

I'm tickled pink!

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Julian Bond — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:52:11 -0000

Please note: "Everyone" actually means "Everyone logged into Facebook". On the rest of the web, like Twitter and so on, Everyone would actually mean Everyone.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

phyo paine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:22:07 -0000

i want to get too much relations with peoples,world without stranger

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Rachel Burkot — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:24:21 -0000

I approve of this change. To those who would say that no one should have their personal information available to the entire Facebook community, well it's not like Facebook is FORCING you to divulge this information with millions of people. It's a privacy setting, meaning you can choose it if you wish or ignore it completely and keep your profile as secure as you'd like.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Chris Dowell — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:32:35 -0000

I wasn't aware this change happened. Thanks, I just changed my settings.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Clay Franklin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:52:49 -0000

Wow! This is great news! I like the new look of Facebook and enjoy the control of who sees what. It will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Fail — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:32:38 -0000

If by public to everyone you mean only those logged into Facebook - hahaha

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

timandren — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:14:00 -0000

We've got to be getting to an era of profile standardization soon. Who will become the USB of social profiles?

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

aanwar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:29:36 -0000

While it sounds like a good move from Facebook's point of view, it isn't the same for its users. I don't remember using the site for anything but to stay in touch with friends and family. They are making it into something that the site isn't. For instance, from being a college only site, it became a site for anyone, then now opening up the profile, they are copying twitter's "openness." If this keeps continuing, I am sure users will start dropping. They are ignoring their average users.

Take a look at the comments, you'll know what i mean:

http://blog.facebook.com/bl...

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Adam Ostrow — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:24:55 -0000

I think we might end up seeing this ... the option to convert your profile into a Page. FB hinted at it on that conf. call a few weeks ago ... at least that's the impression I got.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Paul McLachlan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:02:13 -0000

This probably spells the death of networks. But, there must be one further step Facebook is planning to take before this becomes a Twitter-killer. Suppose you find someone interesting (Pete Cashmore, say) who has opened up their Facebook profile to be partly visible publicly. What do you do then? Do you bookmark the page in your browser and remind yourself to visit every once in a while? Or do you friend him (and risk devaluing the concept of "friend" on Facebook even further)?

There needs to be a way to "follow" or "become a fan" of someone's public profile (just like a product/celebrity page) so you see their status updates in your news feed (and know that someone is following you or one of your fans), without having to become mutual friends and have access to their private profile. Without that feature, it is nowhere near ready to be a Twitter-killer.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

WendyMerritt — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:32 -0000

Isn't this just bringing Facebook into a MySpace look alike? If I wanted no protection and privacy I would still be active with MySpace. My advice, Facebook, is come up with something new...don't keep repeating what can be and has been done elsewhere. What about a webcam feature? How about real time group chats? VOIP on facebook? Allow us to be more social with whom we want...not everyone.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Mari Smith — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:38:16 -0000

Excellent point!!! A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. lol! There's SO much more to Facebook's granular privacy settings!

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Leonid S. Knyshov — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:37:01 -0000

I have a public LinkedIn profile, but I am not so sure of the value of an open Facebook profile. This is really more of a play on LinkedIn than it is on Twitter.

Well, this just proves that the same concept about Internet communications applies - whatever you say within the walled garden will be exposed when the walls are made transparent.

I think I'll open my profile up and see what happens. One potential issue could be tagged photos as that can be potentially damaging. I am leaving that one locked up :) Another issue is exposing my friends who may write on my wall. That one could be a problem. I've actually restricted some settings while posting this.

http://www.facebook.com/pro...

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Mari Smith — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:36:34 -0000

Wow, this is totally awesome news and really helps get over that 5k limit challenge... I've been sitting there for six months now and have about 1600 pending friend req's. By opening up my entire profile, 'non-friends' can almost get the same benefits of interaction! Gotta love that!!!
@marismith

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Adam Ostrow — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:59:44 -0000

Yea, I think a lot of the backlash is over-reaction from people that don't understand all the privacy options that are available to them.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Alan Ralph — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:49:29 -0000

I like the way that you can specify exact levels of disclosure for each aspect of your Facebook profile, including the contents of your Wall and what data will be shared with or viewable by people outside of Facebook. In that aspect, at least, Facebook deserve some praise. :)

I think that more people need to spend some time actually looking at the Privacy Settings pages, they'd probably find that a lot of their fears are unfounded, and that they too can limit their personal info to only those that they know and trust.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Shankho Mukherjee — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:33:39 -0000

those silly people still have the option of writing messages to each other. any more questions?

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

drzl — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:59:27 -0000

If you don't change any settings, you won't experience a change. At all.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Danny D — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:40:06 -0000

Facebook are always trying things to keep them progressing and becoming the social network!
I think most users are now wise to the openess of facebook.
Twitter is a business tool and ideal for spreading the word, whereas Facebook is more of a personal tool

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Sophie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:10:57 -0000

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Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Wade Kwon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:02:15 -0000

I don't believe this is a "new" feature. I've always been able to set my profile to be visible to everyone — I had to set it with a custom setting of "Friends of Friends" or something like that.

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Mary — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:59:39 -0000

A lot of people are complaining that conversations are being seen by strangers, that is, friends of friends that they don't know. Not everybody likes this "sharing thing" and are opting to send only internal messages... : /

They should stop trying to copy Twitter... Twitter is twitter and Facebook should be Facebook!

Re: Facebook Lets You Open Your Profile to Everyone

Dustin A Coates — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:53:47 -0000

Then don't open up your profile. Seems simple enough.

Or just continue to complain about it. It's up to you.