Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information
Found on Electronic Frontier Foundation on Friday, 23 April 2010
Facebook's privacy policy once promised, "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."
Today, Facebook removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users' profiles, "including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests" will now be transformed into "connections," meaning that they will be shared publicly.
Facebook has consistently ignored demands from its users to create an easy "exit plan" for migrating their personal data to another social networking website.
Just delete everything on your account and drop it. It's not like it is impossible to keep in touch with your friends without it.