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I don't think that's true about FB convincing people to over-share. That may have been true years ago (Bob's relationship status has changed to single!) but the
by foobarbecue 4y ago
I don't think that's true about FB convincing people to over-share. That may have been true years ago (Bob's relationship status has changed to single!) but these days I get warnings and stuff whenever I set anything to public, and all the defaults are friends only.
- kmeisthax 4y agoFacebook got sued a whole bunch. Between the FTC's various privacy-related consent decrees, Cambridge Analytica, and the GDPR, they functionally can't do the whole "push people to overshare" thing anymore. I will say though, it's specifically the old Facebook mentality that made me hyped back when Google+ was announced. And then it crashed and burned - which was exactly the point in time where I stopped wanting to be on literally any new social network.