The Facebook Privacy Debate.

After reading Dan’s post over at rocket.ly, I promptly deleted my Facebook account. Aside from the fact that I never really got into Facebook much, I value my privacy. 

As the debate continues, a couple of great sites that summarise the changes that Facebook has gone through in terms of privacy outline why I feel that it is time we start looking for alternatives. No one likes a monopoly (unless you own it!).

Matt McKeon, has a great graphical summary on the evolution of Facebook’s default profile settings from 2005 to 2010.

The New York Times follows this up with another great graphic on the bewildering 50 settings and 170 options that a user has to potentially navigate through just to manage their privacy on Facebook.

NYT also notes that Facebook’s privacy policy has grown in word count from 1004 words in 2005 to 5830 words in 2010. This exceeds the United States Constitution, which sits at 4543 words without any amendments.