NY Magazine just posted a diddy on an initiative that Gawker put in place where they attempted to highlight the Facebook privacy issue/debate.

In order to bring the privacy “plight” to life, Gawker assigned a photographer to in effect stalk Facebook’s Founder/CEO, Mark Zuckerberg for a few days. The resulting reporting was an incredibly boring detailing of Zuckerberg’s every day life.

As, mundane as the reporting was, it brings to light how much of a non-issue the Facebook “privacy” issue is. By choosing to participate in Facebook, the user is in affect relinquishing their privacy. They are putting themselves out there for the whole wide world to see regardless of what their “privacy settings” are.

Users tend to forget that what they “put out there” is the image they are portraying to the world. Think about it, what you put on Facebook represents brand me. Do something, take a look at what you have up on Facebook in a whole new light. What would someone who knows nothing about you think about you after reading your posts or purusing your pictures? What would your employer think? What would your perspective employer think? You might be horrified by what you find out about yourself based on your Facebook persona.

In fact, a story just broke today about how a guy created a program that was effectively able to troll Facebook for users personal information.

So, the moral of this whole story is that there really isn’t much privacy on Facebook and we should all keep that in mind when using it.