Meet Your New Facebook Friend

Facebook privacy settings have become almost laughably complicated as the networking site has grown from a small college hangout to overwhelming town square. The more paranoid and tech-savvy among us make regular pilgrimages to the privacy icon in an attempt to keep a lid on the number of eyeballs that are privy to our bachelor party photos and whether or not we downloaded that Target coupon. But tens of millions of us simply ignore our privacy settings, which can lead to unintended sharing and other privacy violations.

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