Whoops! Didn't think that one through...

Facebook decided to revamp things once again. They did a couple things that could be considered useful, but they made one major change that they do not seem to have completely thought through. They added a feature where people could create groups and add their friends too them without the friends ever knowing they were added to it. It was meant to be a way to make networking easier, but it backfired. As soon as this feature was added a "friend" of both Zuckerberg and the founder of Mahalo were added to a NAMBLA group without their knowing. This caused a huge media storm and a lot of questioning about the security and appropriateness of the new feature. The most alarming part about it is that there is no way for a person to opt out of the feature. People are now pointing out that this is very unlike Facebook, who usually gives you options, and they are wondering why. Many critics are wondering about the security of the new feature. They have pointed out that this means that other people can now be in charge of a part of someone else's page, and the person would not know that they were added to this page unless they specifically looked for it. I'll be very interested to see how Facebook handles the backlash and if they change the application or just leave it the same. I'm also interested to see if people actually use it or whether they just think it goes too far or not.