Why is the admin home directory shared?

I have two servers both of which show the administrator's home directory as being shared. That is, when I open Finder and click on any of the folders listed under PLACES, a banner at the top says "Shared Folder". Yet none of these folders are listed under the File Sharing settings.
Does anybody know why and whether this is good or bad?
Thanks.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question. What part of how it is set up seems to be the problem, the arrangement of the icons, colors, etc.? You do know that you can arrange the screen in any way that you want, moving icons around, moving them to other pages, etc.

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