Over the past few weeks, various protest sites have sprung with the goal of getting people to either confront Facebook management over privacy issues or to leave the social networking giant all together.

But a new website called Openbook might just be the wake-up call that so far has eluded most Facebook users. The site is a searchable log of all public Facebook statuses. The site has a "recent searches" list that included such gems as "nude pics" and "I hate my boss."

A rather benign search for political parties turned a up a Texas woman whose recent status included a racist rant against blacks and the president that includes the obligatory use of the N-word. Amazingly enough, the woman's profile listed a phone number as a contact and her current place of employment, where she lists herself as the assistant manager.

When Asylum called for a comment and to ask if she was aware her profile was public, the woman identified herself as the assistant manager of the franchise location and said she was proud of her comments and did not care who knew.

In her words: "I have lots of black friends and they are not n*ggers, but according to Webster's dictionary Obama meets the definition as a lazy person who has never done anything and had to sue to get into Harvard ... A n*gger."

Sadly, within minutes of the call her father posted on her page to express his support of his "patriotic" daughter and to wonder "how a totally non-qualified person got to be our President." We wonder if her employers would feel the same way? (Sadly, in Texas, possibly.)

For those people who DO care whether their profiles / racist rants are exposed for all the world to see, Openbook proposes that those who find themselves on the site edit their Facebook privacy settings in detail.

Facebook, for its part, has agreed to stop sending potentially private data to advertisers, and to proactively seek out bugs in its code that expose private data.