Facebook Changes Privacy Settings Yet Again

11.12.2009
has again changed how it describes its , which began rolling out to the service's 350 million users just two days ago. The company has now describing how users can protect the contents of the Friends List from becoming public.

This is the third time Facebook has changed Friends List privacy options in as many days.

Here is the post as it now appears (the stricken text was in the original post and are now crossed through in the current version of the blog page, shown below):

"Unchecking 'Show my friends on my profile' will prevent your Friend List from appearing in your profile. when it is viewed by people who are logged in to Facebook. Keep in mind, however, that because Friend List is publicly available, it will be visible to people who are viewing your profile while not logged in."

The Friend List includes everyone a user has "friended" on the service, making it valuable for finding relationships between Facebook users. Useful for making contact with lost acquaintances and distant relatives, the Friend List may also contain business and customer relationships that employers or the users themselves might wish to protect.

Further, relationships that exist today could be embarrassing if revealed in the future, potentially limiting career opportunities based only upon a supposed association that existed only on Facebook.