Saravanan Sahadevan

Saravanan Sahadevan

Saravanan Sahadevan  //  CEO & Chairman of Evergreen Versatile

An entrepreneur.

Saravanan can be contacted at me@saravanansahadevan.com

Dec 11 / 6:34am

Privacy...just when we need it.

With 350 million users, the content that you post, could end up in the wrong hands. I'm amazed how much privacy is taken seriously by Facebook with its new privacy model. Not only it encourages safety but some sort of openness with it as well. Allowing friends of friends to add a friend request by default or everyone else having to see your publicly seen information kind of give a clue on where Facebook's heading. 

From what I can feel which should be obvious by now. Yep, Twitter! Now all those publicly available content that you post (what ever is set as 'Everyone") is available to be searched on the web. Or this informations could be used by application developers which may or may not serve  you better.  

So where do you draw the line? 

Well its entirely up to you now. You decide who sees what. Which I feel is good in some way. No one could be blamed now for your privacy but just your self.

Take Note* 

Facebook kinda acts like Twitter if you live some of your post information to "Everyone". So for instance, a "friend of a friend" adds you and you don't wish to add him and is ignored. He/She is still able to follow you and receive your publicly available information in his timeline. Got it? Well, just be careful to check what your setting is below the status box(the lock symbol), the next time you post some sensitive stuff.