Jules Polonetsky, co-chairman and director at the Future of Privacy Forum think tank in Washington, praised how the process resembles the way people decide what to share in their day-to-day lives. He said putting the controls “when you need it, right there, is far better than putting it in a privacy’ orhelp’ location” somewhere on the site.
Facebook said that until now only 15 percent to 20 percent of its users have customized their privacy settings.
To all present and future users of Facebook, read and reread the above two paragraphs. I’m part of the 15-20% that customizes their privacy setting depending upon which “group” of people I want to either have (or NOT have) access to information, such as posted pictures or events.
As far as the information they’re gathering on me, they don’t have anything more then I give them. Ditto every other place on the web. Don’t “tell” someone online something you wouldn’t want them to know. Common sense prevails.