Greetings. Privacy-related concerns surrounding Facebook continue to escalate. Now anxiety levels are boosting even more rapidly with the unveiling of Facebook's new "Instant Personalization" system and its potential for massive expansion of personal information gathering from -- and sharing with -- other sites. Meanwhile, many observers feel that managing Facebook's convoluted array of privacy settings is just too opaque and unnecessarily complex for many users.

But this really isn't being fair to Facebook. While it may not be obvious, Facebook does provide a procedure -- if you know where to find it and how to use it -- that can fairly quickly limit your Facebook personal information to acceptable levels, at least to the extent that other sites don't already have that data within their grasps.

I've put together a very short YouTube video that demonstrates the process (I recommend viewing it fullscreen -- and 720p HD -- if possible).

Solving Your Facebook Privacy Problems in 2.5 Minutes (with a Bit Of Style)

"If you can't be good, be careful."

--Lauren--