We've been writing over the last two weeks about Facebook's privacy settings and how to use them to keep your Facebook profile safe from Facebook identity thieves, spammers, stalkers, your mother - just about anyone who you'd like to restrict access to your Facebook profile.

The thing is, Facebook's privacy settings are extremely quirky, and sometimes you think you're protecting yourself when in fact, you're actually not. Case in point - disallowing people to view photos that have been tagged of you. In reality, people can still see these photos on Facebook, even if you've specified...

Last week we discussed Five Steps to Protect Yourself from Facebook Identity Thieves and introduced part one of our Facebook Privacy Guide, Customizing Facebook Profile Visibility Settings. If you're worried about Facebook privacy (and you should be), that's a great place to start, but it doesn't stop there.

Facebook applications are subject to an entirely different set of privacy settings, a set that most users never even see, because they're only thinking about their profiles - not the applications that access them. Facebook has caught a lot of flak bout their...

After I wrote earlier this week about some steps to protect yourself from Facebook identity thieves, I got a few questions about how to tweak and customize your Facebook security and privacy settings. It's actually a lot easier than you think - the problem is that Facebook doesn't make it especially easy for users to find Facebook's privacy settings.