Hey Heather-

Thanks so much for sharing your process with us here! I’ve seen that message before as well and know that facebook as a company uses the premise echoed there, that “the more you share the better the experience,” in much of their development strategy and belief of the web. That just means that we need to be all the more aware of being in control of our own content and where it may be shared as facebook will always default to public for us.

Thanks again!

And, one more: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=apps_mynews&ap=1#!/help/?page=1068

This is also interesting:

“If you turn off platform, you’ll be disconnected from all applications and websites. That means friends won’t be able to use them to interact with you, and information and settings you’ve saved may be permanently deleted. To disable all applications at once, click “Select all.”

I’m actually nervous after reading this!

After reading the blurb above, I went to my FB account to locate my applications. It took 15 minutes for me to find the access point to deleting applications.

My favorite part was the message delivered when adjusting privacy settings:

“Use the settings below to control which of your information is available to applications, games and websites when your friends use them. The more info you share, the more social the experience.”

“All anyone is talking about today is the series of articles that the Wall Street Journal has written about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook. Front page above the fold stuff, all the fruit of a “Wall Street Journal investigation.”

We’ll put aside the fact that no mention was made of the Wall Street Journal’s sister company and Facebook competitor MySpace.

So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that most people in tech, let alone the general population, have no idea what the article is even about.”

Read the full post here:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/18/fear-and-loathing-at-the-wall-street-journal/