I just went to a friends Facebook page and learned that she has her address and phone number listed in her “about me” section. Something else I learned “about” her is she is a moron for revealing such personal information on her not private page. Oh when oh when will we learn that making things too much information public on social networking sites can (and will) haunt you? However I will argue that if you are a newbie Internet user Facebook doesn’t exactly explain it’s privacy features very well for its users. When you join Facebook your privacy settings are basically set to “expose all my shit please.” So unless you go into your account and make things private then you might unknowingly have your business on blast (like you thought that video from that night of drunken debauchery were only for your best friends to see, but not making your tagged videos private actually allowed everyone including your family and coworkers to know that when you are super sauced, you like to dance bottomless to Wreckx-n-Effect’s Rumpshaker ). But Facebook is trying to improve things, yesterday they. launched a beta version of its updated Facebook Publisher tool, which adds a Privacy Control feature designed to let users pick and choose who can see their posts.

Do yourself a favor, read this list of 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know. And also do yourself a favor and if last Friday you canceled lunch plans with me don’t then write “had so much fun with you at lunch last Friday!” on one of our mutual friends walls. Seriously? Jerk. Ooooooh I am so removing my “like” from your posted link. Ha! I showed you! (Insert pathetic crying here).

And now, please enjoy the cartoon above from the anti-Facebook blog sickfacebook.com.