Relax, Facebook Just Wants to "Harvest" Your Data!

But first they want to tenderize it some, like those friendly farmers from Motel Hell:

Alana Joy, who started the Facebookprotest.com site organizing the June 6 event, said she is more upset about the way Facebook has made changes, rather than what's changed.

``Just because you post something online doesn't mean it's for the whole wide world to see,'' said Joy, a Los Angeles-based marketing strategist who doesn't use her full legal name online or professionally because of privacy issues.

Her biggest gripe?

``They also didn't explain them in changes that my 18-year-old sister and my grandmother can understand,'' Joy said.

Lior Leser, an Internet lawyer who actually writes similar privacy policies, agreed with Joy.

``The problem is they never really present what's happening,'' said Leser, who is with the Miami Beach firm Leser Hunter Taubman Taubman. ``How about, `Hey, we're a free service, but this is how we use your information to sell ads -- that's how we make money.' ''

I printed out Facebook's privacy policy: it's five, single-space pages of type that's at least half the size of these newspaper characters.

That's it? Just five single-spaced pages?

Any references buried in there to the true size of the "Olympic" pool or that your condo is not on the bay but actually in Overtown?

If so, you're screwed -- 'cause that's just how people in the real world deal with contracts.

If you're interested, ReclaimPrivacy.org will run a scan of your Facebook account and tell you how you had no clue you had agreed to all those settings (and you're a lawyer!)

Finally, to Internet lawyer Lior Leser -- I had no idea such a practice area exists btw -- will you be my friend?