As paranoia surrounding Facebook and job hunting continues to rise, especially now that academic search committees are starting to think about it, it can be increasingly important to develop more granular controls over your privacy. I have a pretty robustly configured set of privacy controls on my Facebook feed (which of course begs the question of why I even bother using it all, but I digress). Today, I want to talk briefly about using Facebook friend lists as a way of exerting further control over your information and who can see it.

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So, this article on Boing Boing talks about how Facebook's new Connect project allows third party websites to hijack your data and use it to sell you shit you don't need without yr permission or the ability to opt out of it. Sites like Gawker, CNN, and NPR have been adding applications to yr profile if you visit their website while also logged into Facebook (even if you don't have the site open). If you go to "Account -> Application Settings" on Facebook, you can see these applications and remove them. That said, there's also a solution that works (for now) to stop this behavior.

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