Do The New Facebook "Friendship" Pages Introduce Privacy Concerns?

Facebook has introduced a new feature that allows users to look back on friendships in their virtual entirety, from shared photos to wall posts and events. But will these "virtual scrapbooks" turn the page on yet another privacy concern?

Facebook has introduced a new feature that allows users to look back on friendships in their virtual entirety, from shared photos to wall posts and events. But will these “virtual scrapbooks” turn the page on yet another privacy concern?

Called “Friendship Pages,” the new feature is a standalone page that displays the shared history of two users, including photos in which they’ve been tagged, comments they have exchanged, events to which they’ve both RSVP’d, mutual friends and mutual “likes.”

The pages are designed to “bring back memories, conversations and times spent together” between two friends, according to Wayne Kao, the Facebook software engineer behind the project.

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