Geek Tip: 5 Things You Should Know About Facebook's New Privacy Settings

1. You can further customize it. If you don't want to use some of their new and "recommended" security settings, you can customize them, and keep what you want, and get rid of what you don't want. Just click on the "customize" text link at the bottom of the page.
2. Friends of friends. This is basically friends that you may not have in common with other friends, and when it clicked on by those "friends" they can see anything that's marked "viewable by friends of friends."
3. Delete unwanted apps. Apps pull info from your profile to work, so if you don't want your info floating around in app you no longer want (or use) it's best to just delete it. Especially if it's a spammy app.
4. Get a grip on instant personalization. Facebook had recently made a change that allowed all of their partner sites instantly sign-you-in, which can lead to leaked info. For now, that feature is disabled by default, but don't be afraid to check it occasionally to make sure that hasn't changed.
5. Info accessible through your friend's apps. This is big, so pay attention! Not only are your apps taking your info, but so are your friends' apps. To stop this you'll need to go to the "Applications, Games, and Websites" section, scroll down to the "Info accessible through your friends", and click edit settings. Then uncheck all of the apps and leave it that way. This is a very sneaky way for apps to steal your info, because you didn't authorize it....In fact, I'm about to go fix mine.