Facebook's new Anonymity Rules

Interestingly enough over the past couple of months, the social network site that we all so frequently use has been the the news for being the venue in cyberbullying incidents and deaths. Many of the young students that have been bullied have been encountered such actions through the Facebook site either by people they know or by random strangers. However, like most social network sites there is a huge level of anonymity. No one ever knows who is on the other end of the computer and what they are up to.
So now Facebook decided to take matters into their own hand by trying to prevent some forms of cyberbullying. Recently, the site put out a public service announcement telling its user the three privacy setting they should check on their facebook page. However, what most users do not know is that in December when Facebook changed their format and you agreed to the new formats, you gave Facebook the right to publicize your status, information and pictures. Nonetheless, to reverse this publicizing action, Facebook is allowing their user to switch back to format where the user had full rights over the information on their page.
Originally Facebook started only as a college students networking site, but over time everyone and anyone could join making the site harder to monitor and protect. Yet, many students wish that the site remained strictly for college students. But by opening the site up to everyone, Facebook jeopardize many of it's user privacy and information.
So in a sense to make things better and a bit safer, the site is offering the option to its user's to change information and control what is accessible. By modifying the privacy setting, not only is the user limiting the information that can be viewed, they are also limiting the information that would shows up on any random Google search.
Considering that Facebook itself is no longer looking out for its users, it's time to be proactive about things and look out for themselves instead. Taking a few minutes to run through all the available privacy settings and understanding what they mean could mean the world of difference sooner than later. That is, unless you like Facebook think that the world is becoming more open and therefore you should too.