Facebook's privacy problems have been widely reported this month, but most people probably can't be bothered to snoop on people they don't know. A new search site could change that. With Youropenbook.org, anyone can enter potentially-embarrassing search terms and see what turns up.
Youropenbook.org uses the Facebook API (applications programming interface) and works whether you are logged on to Facebook or not. Of course, you can also run the same searches from your Facebook page, but that doesn't make quite the same point about privacy.
Youropenbook is not aimed at helping snoopers but shaming Facebook into action. The site's creators say: "Our goal is to get Facebook to restore the privacy of this information, so that this website and others like it no longer work."
If you are a Facebook user and you're concerned about this, check the details of your privacy settings -- here's how.
