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(12-09) 14:38 pst -- many facebook users expressed anger at the site wednesday for changing privacy settings, which they say caused personal information to be inadvertently exposed.

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facebook employee ruchi sanghvi explained the changes in an official facebook blog post titled "new tools to control your experience," which received about 500 comments from users, many of them critical of privacy changes.

"great ? job. now everyone who isn't even my friend can see my profile," one user wrote. "this is ridiculous. i'm not an idiot, i've searched thru all the settings for over cheap mayfaire uggs an hour and now friends of mine who i did not want seeing stuff can now see men's lacoste arixia shoes stuff. i have tried blocking them and customizing them and now all my [information] is exposed."

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many other facebook users apparently approve of the privacy changes, since more than 2,400 clicked the "like" button on sanghvi's blog post.

but criticism came from numerous quarters. kevin bankston, a senior staff attorney with the electronic frontier foundation, wrote that some of facebook's new settings "have created new and serious privacy problems for users of the popular social chocolate short ugg network service."

blogger marshall kirkpatrick, vice president of content development at readwriteweb, called the privacy settings "near orwellian."

"the company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from 'old settings' to ugg classic mini becoming visible to 'everyone,'" kirkpatrick writes. "this is not what facebook users signed up for. it's not about privacy at all, it's about increasing traffic cheap uggs and the visibility of activity on the site."

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