With so many cases of Facebook privacy issues in the news, it leads one to wonder: could these instances have been prevented if users were knowledgeable of Facebook’s changing privacy policies, and adjusted their personal settings accordingly? Is true privacy even possible on a website created for sharing information? Moreover, is privacy possible at all on the World Wide Web? This research study seeks to identify a relationship between users’ efforts to investigate the site’s privacy policy revisions and their awareness of their current privacy settings on the site. The study surveyed individuals about their opinions and perceptions of Facebook in order to gain an understanding of how users feel about the importance of privacy, what they believe their current settings are, and whether or not they have a true awareness of those settings. The researchers then analyzed the respondents’ Facebook profiles to determine if their perceived privacy settings were consistent with their actual privacy settings. The study seeks to answer the research question, “To what extent do the changing security features of personal privacy settings on social networking site Facebook allow personal postings to be viewed by a broader audience than intended by the end user?”