I don't know if I totally understand this article, but it sounds scary. I can't work in Web media without having first-hand experience with social networking sites, yet I HATE any information on me to be truly public.

Quoted: One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.