It seems that you can barely log into the internet today without finding dire warnings about the privacy of your FaceBook account. Hundreds (and possibly thousands) of users have declared May 31, 2010 as "Leave FaceBook Day". Since the dawn of the internet, privacy has been a concern. However, if you put a google search in for "Facebook Privacy Concerns" it returns 17,400,000 results while Twitter returns 15,500,000 results and LinkedIn at the bottom of the pile returns 667,000 results.

In a viewpoint, Facebook is approximated to have the largest number of users among the three. And truthfully, the three (although often lumped together) are really different and have different audiences. With that said, how concerned should you be about your FaceBook security?

Well, like anything else that’s on the internet, it’s not hack-proof. Even the strongest privacy policy isn’t going to protect you if someone really wants to get at your information. Changes on the privacy policy on Facebook however seem to be on a craze and they don’t really mind how many protests they receive, it is more like a "woops" to them. Then there is the audacity of Facebook founders to tell you that having multiple "online" identities is displaying unethical behavior? He’s simply letting you know that your account for business and personal account on Facebook must be one and the same or you don’t have the ethics. And the answer to that?

Probably not – most of us tend to like to keep our "personal" and our "business" lives (especially online) separate as much as possible. I mean seriously – do your children really care if the company that you are promoting has already reached 1000 blog readers? Do those people who follows your company really need to know that your grand daughter is a part of a cheerleading tournament? Probably the answer to both of these is "not so much".

Given the number of issues that have come around you’ll find hundreds of articles including a very interesting one from the New York Times where they referred to FaceBook privacy options as "A Bewildering Tangle of Options". Unless you are willing to spend the time to verify all of these potential options, you might just want to rethink your FaceBook account. However, keep something else in mind – deleting your FaceBook account borders on amusing and is certainly confusing for most.

• Words of Caution:

• Disabling your Facebook account and deleting it are NOT the same thing!

• Links shared by other users after you posted them don’t get removed

• Photos that you shared who others shared don’t get removed

• There are other restrictions that can still cause you privacy issues.

• If you get through the delete process and don’t stay out of Facebook it negates the entire process!!

With that here are some options to help:

• A 33 slide show on how to lock down your privacy at Facebook

• Video instructions on how to delete your Facebook account

• Make sure you read some of the information and make an informed decision.