Was just reading how Facebook plans to open up the floodgates on everyone’s profiles. Soon your news feed will be open to the world unless you remember to click a little box.

When Facebook launched its News Feed feature in September 2006, displaying all activity by a user’s friends in a flowing list of updates on the page, the backlash shook the young service to its core. The News Feed is now the central feature of the Facebook user experience. The new public visibility of shared messages is going to change Facebook on that kind of scale.

Personally this is not a huge deal to us. Facebook is more of a place to lurk and try out witty status messages than post anything that will get you in trouble.

We would like to see the fallout of what others may encounter when it happens. There will be relationship fights, family throw downs and people getting canned from work for sure.

But hey, if you are not smart enough to keep that stuff off the Internet in the first place, it is your own problem.

Now for people who work in the industry of exploiting this feature, it seems like a great time to get interested in Facebook.

We shall see.

It will be a hot topic as more and more people find out the hard way that their private stuff on Facebook is now going everywhere and to anyone who wants to look.

What do you think? Bad idea or don’t really care?

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