Today Facebook, the U.S.'s second-largest largest social networking site, opened its doors to the world. With the long-anticipated addition of regional networks, new Facebook registrants no longer need an email address from a Facebook-approved college or company to join. Facebook's Carolyn Abram explains the privacy implications of the change on the official (and frustratingly feed-less)
Facebook blog, and there's now a
How this expansion affects you page as well. Facebook was originally planning to launch the expansion shortly after the launch of the News Feed, but after users
had a bit of a privacy freak-out, they delayed the expansion to give the community a little time to get their heart rates back under control. There was still widespread resistance to the move, but nothing on the scale of the News Feed. Users seem pacified by the fact that college, high school, and work networks are still as exclusive as ever, and the riff-raff (like me) still can't get too close.
Tags: expansion, facebook, open, social, socialnetworking, socialsoftware
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Subscribe to commentseverythingyellowSep 26th 2006 12:48PM
My roommate will be excited to hear this. She wanted a facebook, but graduated college two years ago and no longer has a college email to get one. Part of the appeal of facebook in the beginning was the exclusiveness of it, but I don't think opening its doors to everyone is that big of a deal.
Ruan CaimanSep 26th 2006 2:27PM
If you're that frustrated about the feedless blog, you could always use feedyes.com to generate one, just a little registration required to save feeds.