Facebook "Privacy" changes

I want to write about how Facebook added new privacy options today. I read an article in the NYTimes yesterday talking about this and it positioned the updates as a way to "preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online" (sounds like Moli that I wrote about yesterday). However, on Facebook itself, it does not seem to position the update this way at all. Instead they say you can now let friends of friends see information which I think is kind of cool and a little less restrictive than the all or nothing approach. But apparently another change is that you can also no longer turn off the mini-feed for "Limited Profile" friends. I suppose that means my client can see if my status says something like "Out drinking the night away"? I find it interesting these changes are touted as "privacy" benefits and yet they seem like they are making things less private.