If you're not aware of how Facebook is gradually eroding your right to privacy, you should click on this link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's timeline of changes in Facebook's privacy settings . You should also note a basic NYT webguide, 3 Settings every Facebook user should know , highlighting some simple steps you can take to protect your privacy on Facebook. (Here's more current links: PC Mag and PCWorld ) However, having viewed Facebook's most recent changes, changes that go beyond the issue of privacy settings, I have come to the conclusion that the anti-Facebook argument has more and more merit. Protecting your privacy using Facebook's settings is no longer enough . Facebook's latest changes effectively mean that even if you change your settings to protect your privacy following the steps above, that the personal information you share on Facebook, the sequence of groups, organizations, locales and affiliations that in part make you who you a