In December 2009, Facebook rolled out new privacy settings that gave more power to the users to exercise privacy settings on every piece of content like status updates, links, photos, videos that they share on Facebook apart from the account settings that they have chosen.

Facebook is extending the same privacy controls on contents share through any third-party applications.

To use the privacy control:

1. Simply click on the ‘lock’ icon on the Publisher on your home page or profile, or the prompts that appear when you share from applications or Facebook Connect websites.

2. Select the group of people you want to share with from the list or select the ‘customize’ option to include or exclude selected people on your network.

3. ‘Share’  or ‘Publish’.

One can use third-party applications settings for:

Sharing contents that can be view by only a few selected people, who shares a common interest in the particular post by specifying them through the ‘custom’ option.

Or share with the broadest audience possible such as information on an important organization you’re supporting. For Example, The Causes application on Facebook.