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The privacy angle looks like a non-issue to me. Your public items get added to their news feed. They could view that information even if they didn't issue a fri
by statictype 16y ago
The privacy angle looks like a non-issue to me.
Your public items get added to their news feed. They could view that information even if they didn't issue a friend request.
- notahacker 16y agoAgreed. I suspect people have their newsfeeds set to "friends only", in which case the "de-facto follow feature" shouldn't work unless the friend request is accepted.
- kmfrk 16y agoYou can also have private accounts on Twitter, so make what you want of the analogy.
- fossuser 16y agoExactly, sounds just like another overreaction people seem to love to make about facebook. When you take a step back and look at the change for a few seconds you realize it's not a big deal at all.