There is no such thing as privacy online. None. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

Facebook is telling you otherwise.

Announced recently, they have a new communications engine that smells a lot like the reviled Google Buzz – it merges email, SMS’s, wall posts, status updates, etc into one giant time sink. All of this is designed to keep you spending all your free time on Facebook, posting more and more of your personal life there. This in turn keeps the money presses at Facebook running. The more they know about you, what you do, who you know, where you shop, and when you’ll break up with your partner means the more they know about how to sell you to their advertisers.

Remember – when you are using Facebook, you are the product being sold.