Keeping up with Facebook privacy changes

Facebook has some new ways that you can choose with whom you want to share your information. A helpful pop-up appeared on my facebook page this afternoon with a short tutorial, but if you didn't have time to look through that, or you haven't gotten the pop-up yet, here's a link to information about the new options that you'll see when you write a post.

You will now have an easier way to tag anyone in your posts. You can also automatically include your location whenever you post. That feature is able to be turned on or off. Before this change you were able to choose who could see your post - so long as you made that choice before you send the post. But once it was out there - it was out there. Your only way to take something back, was to delete the entire post. Now, you can change who can see the post even after you post something. Now, certainly that's not going to guarantee that whoever you're now blocking from seeing something didn't already see it. But, it is a new option.

Seems to me that these new options may be a reaction to Google+'s easier way of controlling who sees what you post - through circles. However, with the relatively small number of people involved in Google+ to this point, you can certainly get your message out to more people on Facebook (even if you exclude some folks from your post).

This may seem obvious to most of you, but it always bears repeating. Don't EVER put anything on the internet that you wouldn't want anyone to see, because once it's out there, it's really out of your hands. Just because you block someone from seeing a post, doesn't mean they may not see it over the shoulder of someone else - or get it forwarded to them from someone who you did not block.

"Privacy" on Facebook (or anywhere on the internet) is really a relative term.

How concerned about internet privacy are you?