Facebook Wants To Be Your Default Home Page

As I was logging into Facebook to check out the redesign, I noticed this little checkbox to “set Facebook as your home page”.

Set Facebook As Your Home Page?

I don’t recall seeing that before. I am impressed that it’s not selected by default.

Once they get all those default home pages, they just need to expand their partnership with Microsoft to offer Live Search as part of the Facebook home page experience. Does Microsoft need Yahoo’s users if they can grab Facebook’s instead? How many people do you think will make the default home page switch?

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