Tony and Jill ended their relationship at 2:43 p.m., Brandon recently added photos to his album "Too drunk to remember this!!," and Darryl just added "The Notebook" to his favorite movies -- welcome to the newly renovated Facebook.com.

What was once a medium for posting videos and sharing frivolous information has become a gaping window into personal lives, leaving many Web-users wondering if privacy is a thing of the past.

A forerunner of the privacy debate, Facebook.com is a booming social network with about 9 million users that allows students to connect with their peers. On Sept. 5, Facebook.com implemented two new features -- a "News Feed" and a "Mini-Feed" -- designed to show recent updates of each user's profile.

"We want to make it easy for people to share information, but only with people they want to share it with," said Melanie Deitch, director of marketing for Facebook.

The "News Feed" feature generates small news stories from the users' Facebook actions. It informs users of updates to their friends' profiles but will not include information that isn't already available by visiting separate profiles, Deitch said.

The "Mini-Feed" feature is similar to the "News Feed," but only contains information specific to the page it is on, she said. Each user can dictate what "Mini-Feed" information they want available and to whom, but only by either physically deleting each feed or blocking specific users from their entire profile.

Although some find the new features to be a timesaving improvement, most are outraged by the changes.

"Facebook has eradicated our privacy," said John O'Hara (junior-economics). "It spreads trivial gossip that has Americans wasting their time on the Internet."

After hoards of angry Facebook users created anti-News Feed groups and petitions, creator Mark Zuckerberg responded by implementing a less-intrusive format. Now, built-in privacy controls allow members to choose what information is available to other users.

"How much is too much?" asked John Carroll, an information science and technology professor. "A lot of it has to do with people's expectations and where they think the boundaries should be. We've created a society that is much more visible and open."

But Facebook and its social networking cousins, MySpace.com and Xanga.com -- which also allow users to publish personal information on the Web -- aren't the only stalker-friendly sites.

In an Internet-only broadcast on www.ourprisoner.com, 35-year-old Kieran Vogel has lived under the constant surveillance of live cameras since June 14.

By logging onto the Web site, viewers use an online voting system to control nearly every aspect of Vogel's life -- everything from .what he wears to whom he dates. Visitors to the site can also watch as Vogel reacts to their phone calls.

"When I first came here, it was a wonderful sense of liberation," said Vogel as he hunched over his speakerphone on the live feed. "I could take my hands off the driver's wheel and jump in the back seat. Now, as time goes on, I am absolutely exhausted from jumping through people's hoops."

Vogel, who is a kazoo player and cartoonist, has lived with his parents all his life and battles many neuroses, including obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder and an unhealthy fascination with toys. Twice-weekly sessions with his therapist are also broadcast live.

"It's kind of a makeover show controlled by the world," said Darin Myman, executive producer and creator of OurPrisoner. "It's like the Kieran network... there's something for everyone."

Vogel's goal is to survive six months in a New Jersey home, surrounded only by staff members and elected visitors. If successful, Vogel will receive awards totaling half a million dollars.

Thirty cameras have been recording Vogel's every move, with the exception of trips to the bathroom -- what he calls "the visitor's entrance."

"No one would want to see me in there," Vogel said. "I actually have to maintain ear hairs. That's an exclusive!"

Now more than ever, students use the Internet to simplify their lives.. -- but as technology advances, many are wondering if it is worth forfeiting privacy.

"With all the social network sites, our personal information is all over the Internet, allowing anyone to read about us," Joe Pugliese (junior-accounting) said. "I think that if you are concerned about losing your privacy, any information that you don't want shared should be kept to yourself and not published online."

It may be a tangible solution for some, excluding those like Kieran who are willing to let the world watch them go on awkward dates dressed as a grape for $500,000.