As we witnessed, Facebook has been hit with a string of controversies over privacy. After a series of complaints from some users and privacy advocates, the company made wholesale changes to its privacy settings. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, apologized to users, saying that some of the site’s privacy settings had become too complicated for the average user to understand. But they are putting as best as they can do for the mutual benefit.

The internet is a free for all between the good guys and the bad guys with ordinary people caught in between. Facebook is no different. The best we can do to protect our privacy, is avoid putting the personal data in any of the social networking site and protect each other as best as we can.

Although Facebook provide us with privacy settings, such that we can configure our account to only allow our friends to view our posts, I don’t think it’s sufficient to guarantee that your data only visible by people whom you want to. Well, it can never be foolproof when we’re talking about the internet. Many ways for people to gather information about us in this social networking world. If we really want a privacy, we should stay away from all the social networking sites. After all Facebook is one of free social networking site, If not Facebook, some other online social networking tool ( Instagram, Twitter, My space, Linkedin) is going to expose us. Facebook is trying it's best to provide us the better control over our Privacy with the ever evolving privacy policies and settings.

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[2] Bottomline is as Steve Rambam, a private investigator specializing in Internet privacy cases, says, "Privacy is dead – get over it". "Appeal of online services is to broadcast personal information on purpose."

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