creeped out.

...This is bullshit, IMHO. It ruins one of facebook's prime social dynamics.

Ever get in that "facebook-y mood", where you just feel compelled to go in and get back in touch with a lot of people you haven't heard from in a while, write on their wall?

Now they can all see that they were just one of 500 people you wrote to, and feel less special, even if your wallpost was heartfelt.

Man, Zuckerberg needs to study the law of unintended consequences a bit more.

It'd be one thing if you could opt in to it... but automatically assuming everybody wanted it is pretty weird.

Essentially, it just shifts the protocol a bit though. No more wall-to-wall ramblings and whatnot. Things just get more private for messaging features, which will destroy the value of the semi-public nature of previous wall graffiti.

Zuckerb said it himself in that New Yorker piece... the value in Facebook has always been that people are more likely to share more information when they know it's restricted who sees it. I think that just changed. A lot.

Everyone does their fair share of Facebook stalking, and it's accepted/fun. But I really see no value in this new featuare, aside from being a more effective tool for actual stalking. There always seems to be some sort of minor uproar when Facebook makes a signifigant change (there's a signifigant contingent of people who still dont think HS Facebook should exist in the first place), but I think we all really have a legitimate beef with this one.

I'm seriously considering cancelling my account.. I posted some things here on Campus Progress not that long ago about what a College Republican said in his profile about our Campus Progress, and a few hours later I got a message from Facebook telling me that they were going to cancel my account because apparently everything we post is their property....... LAME!