Facebook made a huge change to the way privacy works on their site. If you've logged into your Facebook account this week you were probably greeted with a cryptic message and some options that were poorly worded and didn't really convey the true sense of what was going on. Christian Zibreg at has an article explaining the change at Geek.com:
Note that the new “Everyone” setting includes anyone on the Internet viewing your profile, Facebook-enhanced apps and websites, search engines, and Facebook’s RSS feeds. It’s designed in a Twitter-like fashion, allowing you to expose certain pieces of content and information about yourself to public search engines, meaning it’ll pop up when someone searches for you on Google and other search engines.
Be forewarned and take the time this weekend to go over the new privacy settings. Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had issues with the new settings.