Facebook Anti-Privacy Monopoly Hysteria Now Over. Please Return to Your Regularly Scheduled Oversharing.

Remember last year (and the year before that, and the year before that) when everyone was freaking out about the "Facebook Anti-Privacy Monopoly"? There were even infographics!

As recently as this May lawmakers were touting plans to implement their own solutions to privacy problems caused by Facebook's monopoly.

Then Google+ hit the Interwebs a couple of months ago. Starting tomorrow, Facebook will debut new, easier to use privacy settings with "a googley aftertaste":

Competition works.