Matt Astifan Goes Public
Yesterday I decided to go public…on the “stock market” and also made my personal profile on Facebook public!
Why? I decided to trust Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s long term strategy: “making the web open and social”
Here is how it happened:
I was searching Facebook for an old friend and when I found him I noticed that he had his entire profile set to “Private” with the exception of Facebook Questions. I wondered why… so I looked into it and realized you cannot make Questions private!
This got me thinking… Why did Facebook create a new feature that cannot be set to private while all the other featured have an option of private or public? I came to the conclusion that Facebook has been making many strategic moves over the years to get users to make their profiles public.
Sooo… I gave a little more trust to Zuck and made my profile public. After my first “public” post I had over 30 comments which included two “non-Facebook-friends” which also resulted in 4 new Facebook Fans… Interesting hey!
Here is the one rule you need to follow if you decide to do this: Don’t share anything
PRIVATE online! (you shouldn’t be doing this anyways)
What are your thoughts on Facebook Privacy? Are you locked down or completely public?
