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Over the past few years, online social networking sites have caused more and more of our social interactions to happen online. They have also changed the way we interact with our friends, even changing the definition of the word ‘friend’, but they have not changed basic human nature.

There have always been people who do not understand that their friends and acquaintances have no interest in all the tiny things they do in a day. There have also always been people who never share huge life events with their friends. Both of these types of people are still present on the Internet. Look at your Facebook feed sometime and you will notice exactly that – some people over-share and others never share. Thankfully, there are also plenty of people in the middle range who know what and how much their friends really want to know.

Soon, Facebook will allow those over-sharing people to post everything they do on other websites onto their profiles. This new release is not as widely supported as Facebook might wish. Pandora, the hugely popular Internet radio website, is one of the sites that are hesitating to allow Facebook to automatically publish every song a user listens to, onto the user’s profile. Pandora is reacting the same way that the majority of people would react: “My friends do not need to know every song I hear.” Pandora does publish on Facebook already, but the site does not want to publish everything automatically.

At this point, Facebook users should be worried about the security of their information. It has been proven in the past how easy it is to find someone in real life based on his or her online profile, and this kind of automatic sharing of everything you do could lead to highly personal information being put on the Internet for everyone to see.

In addition, this could mean that malware and viruses could more easily infect Facebook. With so many websites automatically posting onto Facebook, a virus could spread incredibly fast before anyone was able to find it and close it down. If this does happen, many more people will find themselves suddenly in need of virus removal services like the one provided by Rescuecom.

Not only is it a bad idea in terms of Internet security, it might just make more people fed up with Facebook. If suddenly user’s feeds are full of the minutiae of one or two people’s lives and it becomes difficult to find posts from other friends, people may become frustrated and begin to leave Facebook. The social networking giant needs to listen closely to what users really want, and what they do not want, and perhaps realize that not everyone thinks that auto-posting from other websites is a good idea.

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