Ah Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, with its own style drink says Privacy is not a norm. Gone are the days of stealth and general private decency, and however much we like or dislike it the Youtube (embedding's disabled so you'll have to click the link I'm afraid).

Zuckerberg, with his giant site and young age (25), talked at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco and declared that privacy is no longer a social norm. "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time." (via Guardian On the other hand, with new sites popping up in 2010 designed to let you commit social media suicide, wiping all evidence of you from social networks, it seems not everyone loves the idea.

There are suspicions that the mentions of 'away with privacy' style comments are related to Facebook's people-irritating move to remove privacy of the 350million users. Obviously this prompted a number of angry Facebook groups, and of course strange ones loudly proclaiming that if Facebook starts charging (no mention of which has happened and seems prompted by the loud angry internet body of irrational minds, unless I stand corrected) which have so far gathered 53,000 members.

Ah privacy, the big annoying debate. The best way to contemplate its value is perhaps to look here, on the Facebook Fails page, with humiliating and curious open entries from about the world. So, what do we think?