Facebook Privacy

Facebook is under fire once again when it comes to your privacy.

The networking site is admitting a problem when it comes to third party applications like, farmville, getting all your personal information. 

No matter how high your privacy setting advertisers will be able to use and send your information all over the internet.

Which has some people rethinking the site.

Facebook has hundreds of millions of users worldwide, and it keeps growing.

But those numbers could start dropping, as people learn surfing Facebook could put your privacy at risk.

Facebook is leaking your personal information to advertisers.

"Third party providers and application makers are doing and how responsible is Facebook in policing," said Web Editor for Midland College Jeff McDonald.

It not only reveals your name, but the names of your friends.

In fact, it can even track the websites you visit.

In particular, Facebook games like farmville or mafia wars.

"They set very strict limits on what they want to share and now they are finding out oh wait a minute...some of these popular games may be able to bypass these settings and be able to share this information," said McDonald.

Now some students from Midland College are now thinking twice about the social network.

"Now they can get my information from that I am definetely not going to play them because i don't like advertiser," said student Raelynn Fulton.

"I probably won't play as much of the games and protect my privacy a little bit better," said student Marc Bauer.

"I used to play all the zanga games like farmville...I can't be ashamed everyone does it," said student Karla Ugalino.

When advertisers get your information, they can fill your inbox with spam!

To avoid this problem McDonald says its best to think before clicking.

"Let the buyer beware. I would recommend going on Facebook and confining yourself just to Facebook. Think long and hard before adding applications," said McDonald.

The problem goes beyond just adveritsing.

Because once your information is out there it's easier to become a victim of identity theft.
   
Or your computer could be infected by a virus.

The social site is so popular, congress is looking into these breaches of privacy, and Facebook creater Marc Zuckerburg says he is working on fixing the security gaps.

Still, in the meantime, be careful.