Facebook, Privacy and Relationships - A New Paradigma

So, this week we were asked to come up with an original topic for a work to be presented on the Ethics class and we pick Facebook and the way its use is changing relationships and privacy nowadays.

We started by doing a simple video (comic one though) about it; please bear in mind that I'm far from being an expert at video editing, as well as in acting, so it's pretty amateur:



We did that small sketch about the gal who is expelled from college because of facebook activity and even though we presented it in a comic style, truth is, reality is not far.
Students have been expelled from college due to stuff like joining groups (Brown University for example) and have had curricular mentions due to facebook photos of them involving alchool consumption. On the business world, TAP's pilots were invited to attend an ethic course after being caught on facebook saying not-so-nice stuff about their colleagues and bosses. Furthermore, British Airways employees were fired after some facebook conversations of them insulting their clientes came to light.

So the big question is: is it fair? I mean, I personally believe that what one does on its privacy can not be used against him. I'm perfectly free to arrive home or a cafe and start complaing about a teacher. What I'm not free to do is tell him not so nice stuff. That's the way I see it. And facebook? It's a problem, because it's not defined if it's the cafe or its face we're talking about. So it's not clear if we're free to do it or not. I can't really find it fair that employees are fired because of what happens that but in a real discussion, I am not able to fundament this position, so I guess it's a weak one.

No matter what I think, the truth is that it is undeniable that the way users adopted Facebook is changing relationships, companies etc etc etc. Only time will tell what new paradigma of privacy have we put ourselves into.