doxopolis:

Honoring privacy is a choice
At the highest level, companies like Facebook have a choice to honor privacy or not. Twitter is a great example. By default, user accounts are public unless the user decides to lock theirs down, removing it from search and requiring approval when someone wants to follow. The question is whether privacy will be honored or not. This is why the arguments that privacy is dead are getting a little absurd, and why so many are shocked at Facebook’s changes. When they thought they were sharing with family and friends, suddenly they were sharing with the world, which is not what they signed up for. There’s nothing unreasonable about people adjusting to the change by deleting their Facebook account. That level of public was never in most Facebook users’ minds.

Good job Joe Day!