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  • July 17, 2007

    Some Facebook Users Turn More Private

    Facebook used to be all about the location of the next kegger, who hooked up with whom and maybe keeping in touch with the foreign student you studied with for a semester. Now this formerly exclusive community is increasingly being used for business networking -- and that's causing some of the service's longtime users to be a lot less forthcoming about the information they share on the site.

    As Facebook Grows, Longtime Users Draw Privacy Veil, Wired News, July 17, 2007.

    Posted by EPIC at July 17, 2007 10:29 AM

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