If you haven’t paid attention to the new privacy settings and mindlessly clicked on with the default one’s then you might end up sharing a lot more than you intended to!

FB recently announced that in order to encourage members to share more information , it has upgraded its privacy settings, making several categories of information of its users visible by default to everyone, unless you actively manage the settings people can see your family,relationships,education,work and not to mention posts( orkut analogy : they’ll be able to see your profile and your scraps!), regardless of what the previous settings were ( hmmm…ok if you don’t do anything wrong on the net but if your parents are on FB too then change your settings!)

Encouragement apart, I think the revised settings is a very clever move to get search engines index more information from the site , in order to counter growing competition from micro blogging sites like Twitter.