How ‘open’ is your Facebook?
I have hundreds of ‘friends’ on Facebook. I don’t filter what anyone can see if they have gotten the acceptance note to their friend request. Among those friends I count long time high school classmates, college track buddies, colleagues and job acquaintances, and my family (yes, my mom is on Facebook). I will say that I am moderately thoughtful when I post a status update or pictures of my latest travels with my fiancée but for the most part, nothing gets censored. My reasoning? If I have accepted you as a ‘friend’ on FB, then I am comfortable enough with you to see all the content I am posting. Not everyone feels that way – in fact I have certain friends that go through a laborious process to designate levels of access for each of their friends. Yikes – too hard for me. If I don’t trust you to see my photos, you probably aren’t going to make my friend’s list. Interesting article in the NY Times on this very topic.