facebook is not so secret ...

Not to get in on the anti-facebook movement, but this site does open up your eyes a bit. You type in something, like "i hate my job" or "i'm not a racist but" and you see posts from all the people who mentioned those words. Remember, facebook is open to the world, so no bong pictures or true feelings about your boss, especially if they are one of your friends. Check it out at youropenface.com

Here's a great article on facebook privacy at pcworld.com -

Facebook Privacy: What the World Now Knows

Thanks to a couple of handy new tools, you can now check out exactly what Facebook is telling the world about you -- and about everyone else. First up isOpenbook, a project created by three computer geeks from San Francisco.

Openbook lets you search through Facebook's publicly available user data to find out what everyone is saying. You enter a search term -- Openbook suggests loaded phrases like "cheated test," "don't tell anyone," and "lost virginity," but you can enter anything you want -- and the site displays pages of relevant Facebook status updates from recent hours.

Now, some of the things you'll find are perfectly innocuous. And others are clearly written by people who, for better or for worse, don't mind sharing their most intimate moments with the world. (We all know a few of those sorts, right?)

Others, though, make you wonder. Does Rachel from San Jose really want everyone knowing what happened at the gynecologist's office on Thursday? Does Martin of New Jersey want his teachers to learn he cheated on his language test on Friday? And does Michael of Pensacola want his boss to hear he called in sick the other day in order to take an impromptu vacation?

Probably not; after all, most people don't think of Facebook in the same way they think of a more public social network such as Twitter. But all of that info's now out there, along with far worse things that I couldn't possibly print in this story.