The widely publicized Facebook privacy row in May has not really stopped users on Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms from connecting to new applications and games.

Two things however, are clear from the issue - One, users are increasingly concerned about the privacy of their data on social networking websites and two, users are also frustrated that they are not being told enough.

So I decided to pull together some privacy-related facts about these applications so that you know exactly what is going on the next time you connect to one of them.

By connecting to an app on Twitter, you are giving it full control over your Twitter account - ie both read and write access. Simply put, you are authorizing the application to be able to perform any action that you can do on Twitter without your permission - eg post a tweet, follow a tweep etc.

Unlike Twitter, Facebook never gives any of its apps write access by default. This permission is granted only if you as the owner give access to the application explicitly or if your account gets compromised.

In contrast to popular belief, you can never really stop random people from seeing your posts or tweets even if your profile is private because all it takes to break this is an unsuspecting connection of yours and a malicious application.

For instance, If your friend decides to give full access to a random Facebook app then your posts and public data go along with his and that can technically be read by anyone as the app can choose to make the data public.

The main assumption of the Open Authentication Protocol or OAuth is that users make responsible decisions while adding new connections and connecting to new applications.

So if you are concerned about the privacy of your posts, cleaning up your connections on the site is probably a good idea. See a nerdy computer geek with glasses on your list whom you have never really talked to much? Unfriend now! Go on.

Remember that you can revoke access to any application on Twitter at any point in time. So if you suspect an authorized app to be misusing its access, withdraw permission.

On Facebook, you have the freedom to revoke certain permissions given to an app alone and not all of them. For instance, you can take back the permission you had given to publish to your wall but still allow the app to read from your wall.