William F. Garrity

In Mashable, a summary of upcoming changes to sharing of status updates:

Twitter Envy: Facebook Adds Public Content Sharing

June 24th, 2009 | by Jennifer Van Grove

Facebook’s Publisher -- aka, the "What’s on your mind?" box on your homepage, was recently overhauled to support smart links, video, photos and other options.

Today, however, Facebook is announcing even more updates to Publisher, which will let users control the privacy settings around each status updates they post to Facebook. Beta testers, and eventually the rest of us, will now be able to specify whether they want to update the world or just a select group of friends.

The new Publisher will now have a lock icon in the lower right hand corner, where users can select to share updates with everyone, friends and networks, friends of friends, just friends, or a custom list. It’s important to note that the share with everyone option is essentially going to make your Facebook status updates public domain, and this has major implications for the upcoming release Facebook Search.

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