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Indeed. Most ordinary Facebook users who are not avid followers of tech news probably have very little idea about these things, and just assume that "it's me and my friends". The appearance of Facebook does little or nothing to give the impression that the information being entered is being publicly broadcast.

If Facebook wants to continue to have an overly complicated privacy policy perhaps a solution is to colour code sections of facebook, where teh colour of the text or background indicates the level of privacy.



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