Facebook's recent privacy changes (see How the new Facebook privacy settings affect you as a Web searcher (and how you can change them)) are frankly worrying a lot of people, and with good reason: your previously private information is no longer as private as you might think. To make matters worse, Facebook has made it as complicated as possible simply to upgrade or change your privacy settings, as evidenced by this intriguing graph from the New York Times: Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options.
However, there's a quicker way to see what holes there might be in your Facebook settings: ReclaimPrivacy.org. Basically, it's a Facebook privacy scanner packaged in a handy-dandy browser button. Just drag the button to your browser's toolbar, click "Scan for Privacy", and your Facebook privacy settings will be scanned and examined for possible safety issues. It's an easy, non-complicated way to figure out the maze of possible Facebook privacy infractions, especially since the ReclaimPrivacy bookmark tells you exactly what you need to fix (and even plugs holes for you). Here's an image of my Facebook privacy settings after the ReclaimPrivacy bookmarklet got a hold of them - quite different than what I thought I had:
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I like facebook alot but this new privacy thing concerns me somewhat.