Facebook Exec Extols the Virtues of Setting Privacy to "Everyone"
Facebook is under a spotlight for new privacy settings that could lead users to unwittingly expose a lot more information about themselves. But in a keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Facebook executive Paul Buchheit laid out the argument for why he sets his privacy settings to the most open level–“everyone.”
“I changed my privacy settings to be more public. I like the ability to share things with people more easily,” said Buchheit, whose company FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook. He sets all of his information to be open to everyone except his phone number and email, he said. He features a photo of himself with his wife, and even lists his birthday (although only the day, not the year).