Is this legitimate, or a clever chain mail bluff? (Facebook related)?

[AlexxaLeeanne]

Since Facebook went on the stock market a few weeks ago, several people I know have been posting these 'warning' essays as their statuses telling the 'government' or whoever is looking at their page that their pictures and information are private and not to be used for anything? I always thought it was common knowledge that stuff on the Internet could be accessed by whoever whenever, even with high security settings if someone was a hacker and really wanted to get in and see stuff? Did someone just start this chain letter about invasion of privacy warnings or is this actually something about Facebook that changed when it went to a public IPO? It seems like a bunch of fluff to me, after all, if the government is checking someone out in 3 years are they really going to dig through old posts to see if there was a 'warning' posted on the page? And couldn't the government look at peoples Facebook before its shares went up for sale? People are specifically posting this saying that this 'warning' is a result of something that changed durring the past few weeks? any input? Googled it and nothing came up!
HA! Guess I should've used Yahoo and not google... This article JUST popped up!

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/s...lang=en-US

Thanks for answering guys!