+**Default Post Privacy**
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+By default, Friendica assumes that you want all of your posts to be private. Therefore, when you sign up, Friendica creates a group for you that it will automatically add all of your contacts to. All of your posts are restricted to that group by default.
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+Note that this behavior can be overridden by your site admin, in which case your posts will be "public" (i.e. visible to the entire Internet) by default.
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+If you want your posts to be "public" by default, you can change your default post permissions on your Settings page. You also have the option there to change which groups you post to by default, or to change which group your new contacts get placed into by default.
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+**Privacy Concerns To Be Aware Of**
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