Here’s a thought-provoking article by Fast Company entitled “Privacy on Facebook Is Vanishing“. I personally think the issue is overblown. Yes it has involved into an opt-out model, but Facebook also changes how we view social media. If you take some effort, it’s not very hard to control your privacy within Facebook setting. I do it about once every few weeks (that’s the rate Facebook is changing their policy), and have very tight control of my family photo albums.

What would be nice is for Facebook to enable access control by list. I have associates from work, college friends, high school friends, and people I simply network with. It’’ll be a great feature to have very clean way of controlling privacy by lists. Once you are set with your privacy setting, just double check with this nifty tool to look at what the public can use. http://zesty.ca/facebook/

Obviously Facebook does need to spend more PR effort to educate their customers on policy changes and make the control setting control “user friendly”.