It’s time to review your Facebook Privacy Settings. Again. Recent changes made by the social media giant have prompted the following meme on Facebook:   “As of today, there is a new privacy setting called ‘Instant Personalization’ that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to ‘Allow.’ To change this [...]

If you don’t know the answer to that question, now is probably a good time to check the privacy setting of your teen’s Facebook account. But first, here’s the back story. Last night Peter was viewing our teen’s Facebook page and noticed a comment from one of her friends. He didn’t know this friend so [...]

Several people have emailed me this morning to let me know the Facebook Ads story has turned into a Facebook meme (rhymes w/cream). A friend in Florida received the note from a friend of his in Hawaii. A reporter in Chicago just contacted me for a story they’re running. (I’ll provide the link when available.) [...]

Every Facebook account has privacy settings that users should review and customize based on personal preference. *SHOULD* is the operative word. It’s sort of like your owners manual for your automobile. You know you *SHOULD* read it but you really only pull it out when you need to know where the alternate sound jack thingee [...]

UPDATE 7/19/09 5:43 p.m. Since my original post, thanks to the many comments here and elsewhere, I’ve learned that the issue is not with Facebook. The culprit is a third-party app developer – likely the quiz app. Nonetheless, changing the settings as described below, is still a good idea for most people. Today is Sunday. [...]