Ever since Facebook came out they always emphasised on the idea of connections, however when Facebook first made their debut in 2005, it was a private space for communication. Today Facebook has transformed in a forum where much of you information is public by default.
In 2006, Facebook's privacy policy stated that "no personal information that you submit to Facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings." Then as time progressed in 2006, Facebook allowed your personal information to be visible to to your school, your specified local area, and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about, yet they still allowed their users decent amount of privacy.
However, in 2009 Facebook decided that their default privacy setting should change from "private" to "everyone". Facebook believe that since their were a social networking site -making their users personal information available to everyone, would open more lines of communication.
Finally in April 2010, Facebook's new private policy stated that "When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term General Information includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connection, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” ... Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you should consider removing (or not making) the connection."
Clearly, we can conclude that Facebook was meant to offer its users complete and effective controls over their personal information. Nonetheless, as Facebook grew larger and became more important, it changed from users control to advertising and businesses purposes. They made available more and more of its users' information, while limiting the users' options to control their own information.
Complete Article at: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline
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