Written by Thilde Vesterby
Mashable (a large Social Media News blog)has noticed a new feature on Facebook that might have a big impact on the future of the social network: When you look under your email notification settings, a new option, that didn’t use to be there, comes up: ‘email me when someone connects to me as a fan’.
Mashable interprets this option as a proof that Facebook is inspired by Twitter, on which you don’t have friends but followers. Apparently you will soon be able to make your status updates on Facebook public to the world and not just to your friends – just like it works on Twitter now. Here anyone can follow you regardless of whether or not you follow them back – so maybe Facebook is planning on doing the same thing and let people become fans of your profile and follow your updates without being your friend. Hopefully they will make the possibility of sharing your updates with everybody optional.
We are very excited to see if this really happens and what effect it will have. Will it harm Twitter? Will Facebook users be upset about the changes or will they be excited about the possibility of communicating with the whole world in their updates? What do you think?
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