Roughly two weeks ago, Facebook made some changes on their interface which allows users to view updates and comments made by their friends. A new box was added to the chat column that runs the updates of people within your circle on real time – what they have posted in their friends’ walls, what or who they subscribed to, who they made friends with, etc. These things were absent in the old “wall”, unless you visit a friend’s page and fish something out from there.

Facebook has achieved everyone a demi-god status, being omniscient and all, but within your own network of course. It is not the typical response to breakdown service report, or a hacking issue. It’s already beyond that.

What threat does it post to us users? Technically, with the new Facebook interface, we were automatically subscribed to follow everyone’s move. Like what Twitter does. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a celebrity or not, but somehow you lose whatever is left of your online private life. Facebook has simply exposed us to people we do not know.

Time has recently announced Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, as Time’s 2010 Person of the Year. One of the contenders to the award was Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.

People were actually questioning Time’s choice, as many put much credit on Assange’s contribution to solving press censorship. While Zuckerberg has managed to connect almost half a billion of people in the planet, and earned billions from it, Assange rocked governments with the release of various classified information that could either make or break international relations.

They are two people from different backgrounds. Zuckerberg is a Harvard tech guy who at a young age managed to create a name for himself quite on a positive note. Assange’s younger years were defined by constant movements – schooled in various locations, lived in different places and is constantly under the watch of Swedish and American federal authorities. He has been known as a programmer and computer hacker, and lately as an internet activist known to have founded WikiLeaks.

Zuckerberg appears to be a less complicated choice. His work has affected the lives of millions of people who are now connected with a click, not to mention everything about him looks promising like a lifetime laptop warranty. But how does it compare to the battles of Assange: his stand for press freedom and truth?

There are surveys that came out very recently about high incidents of cheating in Facebook resulting to divorces. While Facebook is not the main culprit here, being just a tool used to reconnect with people you haven’t seen since the Ice Age, there are some who reconnect with their old flames, share their pasts online, their frustrations, diet, their acne face wash, those trips to Hawaii and whatnot. Before they knew it, they’re out dating secretly – and it’s happening just right under someone else’s nose.

Having experienced the trauma of having an ex-wife who cheated on him through Facebook, Ken Savage created his own website called FacebookCheating.com. The website provides stories of cheating spouses, tips on how to spot an growing affair, internet dating, Facebook stalking, and all other things you can think of that relate to online cheating.

In a recent survey on 5000 lawyers, 20% of their divorce cases mentioned Facebook. That’s a lot.