Open Sharing will be a new option, but it's not in place yet. Ann Turner On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Karla Huebner via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Thank you, Jamie... sounds as though many of us should just take a break > from expecting to do much with 23andMe for awhile. > > I did a bit of reading myself trying to catch up on 23andMe's forum > discussion, and my impression, given the many intelligent questions people > had (only some of which were answered), is that there could be a lot of > complexities unforeseen or unacknowledged by 23andMe. And... the company > distinguishes between "invitations" and "introductions" in a manner I don't > think the average user (myself included) was aware of or will easily keep > straight. If I understand correctly, we will still need to invite people to > share, just that the only people who can be invited will be Public. Earlier > it had been my understanding that all Public profiles would automatically > share with their matches. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong!) >