Ever since this whole Internet thing got started, people have been sharing stuff left and right. In the late 90s, music on Napster and flashy chain mail was all the rage. These days, it's more likely to be a video mashup of someone aging or photos from last night's party that no one ever remembers being taken.

Regardless of what it is you want to share, starting today you can do it efficiently and easily on Facebook. Now when you find something on the Internet that you think is cool—articles, photos, videos, and so on—you can paste the link into a field on the My Shares page and then choose to send a preview of the page directly to friends or post it up on your profile. Same goes for stuff that you find on Facebook—you can click on a "Share" link that sits next to all content and send it around to people or post it up on your profile for all the world (well, everyone who can see your profile) to see. To get started, check out our tutorial.

When you share something directly with your friends, it's completely private, like sending them a Facebook message. When you choose to share by posting something on your profile, it's something that you are choosing to make public, so it shows up in your Mini-Feed, and may create a News Feed story for some of your friends.

The addition of Share does not change your privacy settings in any way. As always, no one will be able to see any information about you unless your privacy settings allow it. If you want to change your privacy at any time, go to the My Privacy page. Also, we've updated our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy as a result of these feature additions.

As a mark of due respect to all the kindergarten teachers of the world, go forth and share.

Chris, the project manager for Share, loves that he can be meta and share Share with the world.