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		<title>Every 5th Divorce Petition is Reference to Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook have indulged in our life in such a way that it has ruined a lot of relationships and troubled countless individuals. This article is not only for those people who do not use Facebook willingly or unwillingly, but it is especially for those who take Facebook as a vital part of their daily activities. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook have indulged in our life in such a way that it has ruined a lot of relationships and troubled countless individuals. This article is not only for those people who do not use Facebook willingly or unwillingly, but it is especially for those who take Facebook as a vital part of their daily activities. Undue involvement and excessive use of social networks has led to provide surplus proofs in divorce cases. According to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6857918/Facebook-fuelling-divorce-research-claims.html" target="_blank">the telegraph</a> Facebook is cited in one out of every five divorce petitions. Also we reported last year that <a href="http://sickfacebook.com/20-divorce-applications-uk-cited-facebook/" target="_blank">20% Divorces in UK cited Facebook</a>.<br />
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<p>There are various reasons of that but the most common some are given below</p>
<ul>
<li>Seeing an old/new picture worth a thousand words.</li>
<li>Tagging someone/ partner rudely.</li>
<li>Search of former partner causes unreasonable behavior.</li>
<li>Lack of attention towards partner.</li>
<li>Flirty wall post, comments, or Inbox messages on Facebook.</li>
<li>Relationship status as it clearly portrait season/time of year and relationships.</li>
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<p>Facebook have many bad impacts on users’ but above all their physiological aspects which affect their relationships. The news papers are full of story of ‘Ex-friend&#8217;s Facebook revenge costs £22,000 damages but also extremely humiliating. as reported in ‘<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/25/law.facebook" target="_blank">the guardian</a>’, ‘<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7523128.stm" target="_blank">BBC News</a>’ , ‘<a href="http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/15052473" target="_blank">sky news</a>’ and ‘<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2453538/Businessman-awarded-22000-damages-over-fake-Facebook-site.html" target="_blank">the telegraph</a>’.</p>
<p>Also Authorities of different countries blame Facebook for ruining users’ relationship; According to Pew Internet and American Life Project report one in <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37986320/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/facebook-divorce-lawyers-new-best-friend/#.T35gftlBlWV" target="_blank">five adults use Facebook for flirting</a>’. Furthermore besides the disadvantages of such social networking sites on teenagers, percentage of consequences is increasing where middle-aged users have also wasted and confused their relationships. Marriage counselors strongly believe that Facebook is one of the causes for the increased separations. Social Networks can become addictive. They can take over your life, leaving little time for family and friends. Knowing when to stop is crucial – Try to switch off!</p>
<p>In short; one may think that it’s not the Facebook who should get blame for individual’s actions, but they should consider that it’s Facebook which provides all functionalities to individuals to ruin users’ relationships. If Facebook won’t offer such options the facebook victim will be reduced, but why Facebook just can only give such a powerful weapon to damage relationships but can’t prevent cases to reoccur.<br />
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		<title>Facebook is Reading Private Text Messages from Your Mobile</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK newspaper The Sunday Times reported that Facebook is accessing smartphone users text messages who have downloading facebook application installed on their mobile phone. Important thing is that Facebook didn&#8217;t denied the report and admitted that Facebook is reading mobile phone users private text messages as a part of testing phase of their own messaging [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UK newspaper The Sunday Times reported that Facebook is accessing smartphone users text messages who have downloading facebook application installed on their mobile phone. Important thing is that Facebook didn&#8217;t denied the report and admitted that Facebook is reading mobile phone users private text messages as a part of testing phase of their own messaging service. Facebook is planning to launch a messaging service very soon.<br />
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In a statement Facebook spokesperson said: &#8220;The permission is clearly disclosed on the app page in the Android marketplace and is in anticipation of new features that enable users to integrate Facebook features with their texts. However, other than some very limited testing, we haven&#8217;t launched anything yet so we&#8217;re not using the permission&#8221;.</p>
<p>Most shocking news for all the smartphone users is that not only facebook is accessing their private data but also other companies like Flickr, Yahoo Messenger and Dating site Badoo is also reading users data on smartphones through their apps. YouTube apps can remotely access smartphone camera to take photograph and videos any time. Some apps like My Remote Lock and mobile game app such as Tennis Juggling can even intercept user calls.</p>
<p>These news reports are really scaring for smartphone users as mobile apps are very getting popularity with every day passing and according to a poll, 70% of users very very rarely read terms and conditions.</p>
<p>Member of Privacy International Campaign group, Emma Draper told reporters: &#8220;Your personal information is a precious commodity, and companies will go to great lengths to get their hands on as much of it as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>So we should rethink while using facebook apps and other mobile apps even the popular ones. They all are accessing your private data.<br />
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		<title>President Obama Banned His Daughters to Use Facebook [Total Respect]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know that President Obama doesn&#8217;t like kids to use Facebook and other social media sites even though he made full use of Facebook to get vote from young generation in the presidential election and had raised hell of money for his election campaign with the help of his 24million followers on his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we all know that <a href="http://sickfacebook.com/president-obama-advised-kids-to-be-careful-on-facebook/" target="_blank">President Obama doesn&#8217;t like kids to use Facebook</a> and other social media sites even though he made full use of Facebook to get vote from young generation in the presidential election and had raised hell of money for his election campaign with the help of his 24million followers on his Facebook page. And now its been reported that President Obama has banned his daughters from using Facebook.<br />
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Uk newspaper Mail Online reported on Saturday that President Obama, also called &#8220;First Social Media President&#8221;, said: &#8220;It does not make much sense to put the most private details of his family life on public view and he doesn&#8217;t want strangers knowing their family business&#8221;.</p>
<p>US President Obama have 2 daughters, Malia 13 and Sasha 10. Malia is now old enough to join Facebook but President Obama said that he will not allow his daughters to join Facebook until they are both 4-years older.</p>
<p>The Statement comes after many private photos on his official Facebook page revealed. In an interview Mr. President said: &#8220;Why would we want to have a whole bunch of people who we don&#8217;t know knowing our business? That doesn&#8217;t make much sense. We&#8217;ll see how they [his daughters] feel in four years&#8221;.</p>
<p>However, earlier this week White House released latest official family portrait with the caption &#8220;The new Obama Family Portrait&#8221;. Portrait shows that President Obama is sitting with first lady Michelle Obama and both daughters. And the portrait got 71,000 likes and 11,000 comments on Facebook.</p>
<p>Without thinking of president obama&#8217;s other views and political decision we should totally support him on this matter that Facebook is not for kids and we totally respect his private life. Total respect the decision.<br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Group of Facebook Users posted Facebook Mark Zuckerberg personal pictures on image hosting website to expose facebook security flaws. Members of a Body Building forum revealed the flaw in a instructional tutorial of step-by-step guide of how to view private photos on facebook. According to the instruction, when facebook users report a profile picture of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Group of Facebook Users posted Facebook Mark Zuckerberg personal pictures on image hosting website to expose facebook security flaws. Members of a Body Building forum revealed the flaw in a instructional tutorial of step-by-step guide of how to view private photos on facebook.<br />
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According to the instruction, when facebook users report a profile picture of some facebook user as inappropriate, Facebook ask the reporting user to view more personal pictures of same user. Group of facebook users used this  security flaw and break into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg account and posted 14 personal pictures of Marck Zuckerberg on internet with the title &#8220;It&#8217;s time to fix those security flaws Facebook&#8221;. Images included Mark Zuckerberg picture with girlfriend preparing food in kitchen, holding a chicken and a meeting with US President Barak Obama.</p>
<p>Important point is that just a week ago Federal Trade Commission warned facebook for privacy settings which were updated two years ago and demanded facebook to do regular audits over the next 20 years. Federal Trade Commission also accused facebook for deceptive practices.</p>
<p>Though facebook claimed that they have fixed the flaw but it clearly shows that facebook has never been sersious about privacy settings and have never taken appropriate actions since facebook changed privacy setting two years ago.</p>
<p>In a statement Facebook says: &#8220;Earlier today, we discovered a bug in one of our reporting flows that allows people to report multiple instances of inappropriate content simultaneously. The bug allowed anyone to view a limited number of another user&#8217;s most recently uploaded photos irrespective of the privacy settings for these photos. This was the result of one of our recent code pushes and was live for a limited period of time. Upon discovering the bug, we immediately disabled the system, and will only return functionality once we can confirm the bug has been fixed&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>High Court Ordered to Ban Facebook in Pakistan by 6th October 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has finally met its fate in a judgment passed by Lahore high court. Justice Azmat Saeed ordered the Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology to block the social networking website, Facebook for maintaining content of religious discrimination. According to news published in Pakistan today, there was a petition demanding the ban on Facebook for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://sickfacebook.com/category/facebook/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> has finally met its fate in a judgment passed by Lahore high court. Justice Azmat Saeed ordered the Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology to block the social networking website, Facebook for maintaining content of religious discrimination. According to news published in <a href="http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/facebook-to-be-blocked/" target="_blank">Pakistan today</a>, there was a petition demanding the ban on Facebook for holding notorious competition based on blasphemous caricatures on May 20, 2011. The court has ordered the government to <a href="http://sickfacebook.com/italian-parliment-ban-facebook-mafia-support/" target="_blank">disabled Facebook</a> or ban Facebook and deliver a compliance report by October 6, 2011.<br />
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This is being rightfully done to a social networking site that supports religious discrimination. A Similar event took place an year back with consequences that followed to temporarily restrict access to Facebook in Pakistan. Either the mistake is somehow repeated or intentionally done because Facebook Platform Policies clearly state:</p>
<p>You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.</p>
<p>Even if the Facebook administrators failed to see it the first time, how come they not notice it when the competition was intentionally held again after a period of one year? The administrators have the complete control to remove any controversial material being posted on their website to ensure quality as stated in <a href="http://www.facebook.com/terms.php" target="_blank">Facebook terms</a>:</p>
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<li>You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.</li>
<li>We respect other people&#8217;s rights, and expect you to do the same.</li>
<li>You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else&#8217;s rights or otherwise violates the law.</li>
<li>We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it violates this Statement.</li>
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<p>What sort of right do Facebook respect if it supports humiliation of a certain religion despite having complete authority to remove content based on controversy? This also provokes another question in reader’s mind, why is a social networking website being used as a tool to promote religious violence?<br />
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		<title>Facebook is Growing up a Self-Obsessed Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Baroness Greenfield, A well known scientist, of pharmacology at Oxford University indicated that Facebook is growing up a self-obsessed generation who have childlike desires and have concentration problems. Prof. Baroness Greenfield believes that growth of social life on internet and as well as high use of computer games could effectively &#8220;rewire&#8221; the brain. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Professor Baroness Greenfield, A well known scientist, of pharmacology at Oxford University indicated that Facebook is growing up a self-obsessed generation who have childlike desires and have concentration problems. </p>
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<p>Prof. Baroness Greenfield believes that growth of social life on internet and as well as high use of computer games could effectively &#8220;rewire&#8221; the brain.</p>
<p>This can result in reduced concentration, a need for instant gratification and poor non-verbal skills, such as the ability to make eye contact during conversations.</p>
<p>Prof.Baroness Greenfield also a former director of research body of the Oxford University, said: &#8220;Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): &#8216;Look at me Mummy, I&#8217;m doing this&#8217;, &#8216;Look at me Mummy I&#8217;m doing that&#8217;. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;re in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it&#8217;s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prof. Greenfield continued: &#8220;Some Facebook users feel the need to become &#8216;mini celebrities&#8217; who are watched and admired by others on a daily basis. They do things that are &#8216;Facebook worthy&#8217; because the only way they can define themselves is by &#8216;people knowing about them&#8217;. It&#8217;s almost as if people are living in a world that&#8217;s not a real world, but a world where what counts is what people think of you or (if they) can click on you.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>15-million US Facebook Users Have Deleted Their Accounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Facebook gets more than 600 million hits on monthly basis, Its been reported that Facebook is experiencing huge number of users going away from facebook and deleting their accounts. Especially users from US and Canada are removing themselves from Facebook every month. According to Inside Facebook, 687 million users visited Facebook in June 2011, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite Facebook gets more than 600 million hits on monthly basis, Its been reported that Facebook is experiencing huge number of users going away from facebook and deleting their accounts. Especially users from US and Canada are removing themselves from Facebook every month.</p>
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According to Inside Facebook, 687 million users visited Facebook in June 2011, however growth rate has been a lot less if you compare it to the last 2 months. The reason are given is that Facebook users are leaving the social networking site due to privacy concerns. According to the report 15 million users from US removed their account and approximately 5.5 million Canadians have removed themselves from Facebook</p>
<p>Myron Blue of Wired Magazine said: &#8220;The party is over for Facebook. People are tired of all the add-ons and they are growing more and more concerned about their privacy.  Most importantly, they are bored and have decided to move on&#8221;.</p>
<p>Most Worried news for facebook is that students, who are original audiances of Facebook, no longer consider Facebook as a cool tool to communicate with friends.</p>
<p>17-year-old Jimmy Batlon from New Orleans said: &#8220;Facebook is for old people and losers. We want something new, something for our generation&#8221;.</p>
<p>However, Despite accepting that millions are removing their facebook accounts, Facebook doesn&#8217;t agree with dropping of growth rate. Facebook spokesperson said: &#8220;Yes, many in the U.K., Canada and the United States are getting off Facebook, but we are growing in places like Mexico and Uganda&#8221;.<br />
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		<title>55-Year old Unemployed Woman falls for a $500,000 Facebook Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 55-year old woman who is unemployed because of her back injury problem falls for a $500,000 scam. It all started with a Facebook Wall message &#8220;You have Won&#8221;. A woman, who doesn&#8217;t want to reveal her name, clicked on the message and she was told to send an email to the Facebook claims department [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A 55-year old woman who is unemployed because of her back injury problem falls for a $500,000 scam. It all started with a Facebook Wall message &#8220;You have Won&#8221;.</p>
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A woman, who doesn&#8217;t want to reveal her name, clicked on the message and she was told to send an email to the Facebook claims department with given code numbers. After some days she received an email with the message that she needs to transfer $544 to Trans Global Express Courier Service so she can recieve her $500,000 cheque. She did it via Western Union so she can get her enormous cheque couriered quick smart.</p>
<p>Later that night she received a call from a man who told her that she needs to transfer further $5000 to the British Immigration Tax Offices to clear her cheque.</p>
<p>She spoke to her daughter who told her its most probably a scam. Woman still went to her bank to get an application for bank loan as she doesn&#8217;t have enough money but didn&#8217;t filled it and send an email back to the scammer that she didn&#8217;t have enough money. She then went to Police station.</p>
<p>Woman said: &#8220;But I never filled it in. I emailed the people back and told them I didn&#8217;t have enough money.&#8221;</p>
<p>In her statement she said: &#8220;I was thinking, Oh God, someone is looking after me. I didn&#8217;t even enter any competition. I was overwhelmed. It&#8217;s all just so embarrassing. I just can&#8217;t believe I fell for it now. I&#8217;m not a gullible person.&#8221;</p>
<p>About the money, $544 she transfered via WU, Woman said: &#8220;I was told it was needed because it was such a large amount of money.&#8221; </p>
<p>Later after investigating Police issued a warning via press statement for others to not to fall for the scam.<br />
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		<title>Study Reveals Facebook contributes to Jealousy in Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people will admit they are addicted to Facebook, but not everyone will admit they use the site to check up on their significant others or potential mates. A new study by University of Guelph Ontario, called, &#8220;More Information than You Ever Wanted: Does Facebook Bring Out the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy?&#8221; finds Facebook contributes [...]]]></description>
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A new study by University of Guelph Ontario, called, &#8220;More Information than You Ever Wanted: Does Facebook Bring Out the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy?&#8221; finds Facebook contributes uniquely to feelings of jealousy.</p>
<p>Study found the social networking site can contribute to a &#8220;negative feedback loop,&#8221; where the user logs on and sees exchanged messages or photos and because of what they see, they log on more frequently to monitor the communication.</p>
<p>Study reveals that the availability of information plays a huge role in the outcome. The open nature of Facebook exposes people to information and exchanges about their partner they would not otherwise see.</p>
<p>Dr. Howard Markman, a professor of psychology at the University of Denver who is sometimes referred to as &#8220;Dr. Love&#8221; by colleagues, said:<br />
&#8220;There is no doubt there is more to negotiate. It&#8217;s kind of like nuclear energy. It can be used for good, but there is a lot of potential for danger&#8221;.</p>
<p>To avoid that danger Markman says face-to-face communication is critical, He Continues: &#8220;Fighting about Facebook can be hard, but people need to learn how to talk and openly handle what&#8217;s going on and learn how to set some boundaries about what is acceptable and what is not&#8221;.</p>
<p>Glen Gilbert, who recently ended a three-year relationship, says he used facebook to see who is ex-girlfriend was adding as friends, who she had pictures with and her interactions with other users.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;Right after she broke up with me, I stalked her profile, and when I saw her with other men, it hurt&#8221;.</p>
<p>Even before the break up, Gilbert says conversations about the same topics would come up and sometimes be a point of conflict. He said: &#8220;When I came across pictures of her with other men, I would ask who the guy was, just insecurity on my part. It didn&#8217;t lead to the break up, but it definitely caused tension&#8221;.</p>
<p>And we all know Gilbert is not the only one constantly logging on to a romantic partner&#8217;s page and feeling jealous.</p>
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		<title>Mark Zuckerberg: &#8220;Facebook has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all Madness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg announced in a press conference outside Palo Alto, CA office that Facebook has gotten out of control and has become too stressful. Facebook will be shutdown in March 15th. Mark Zuckerberg said in press conference: &#8220;Facebook has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark Zuckerberg announced in a press conference outside Palo Alto, CA office that Facebook has gotten out of control and has become too stressful. Facebook will be shutdown in March 15th.<br />
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<p>Mark Zuckerberg said in press conference: &#8220;Facebook has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness. Starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zuckerberg said that the decision to shut down Facebook was difficult, but that he does not think people will be upset.</p>
<p>In a private phone interview, Zuckerberg said: &#8220;I personally don’t think it’s a big deal. And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Parents across the country have been experiencing a long anticipated sense of relief.</p>
<p>Jon Gutaari, A single parent from Detroit said: &#8220;I’m glad the Facebook nightmare is over. Now my teenager’s face won’t be glued to a computer screen all day. Maybe I can even have a conversation with her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those in the financial circuit are criticizing Zuckerberg for walking away from a multibillion dollar franchise. Facebook is currently ranked as one of the wealthiest businesses in the world, with economists estimating its value at around 7.9 billion.</p>
<p>But Zuckerberg remains unruffled by these accusations. He says he will stand by his decision to give Facebook the axe. &#8220;I don’t care about the money. I just want my old life back.</p>
<p>The Facebook Corporation suggests that users remove all of their personal information from the website before March 15th. After that date, all photos, notes, links, and videos will be permanently erased. </p>
<p>Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook, Avrat Humarthi said: &#8220;After March 15th the whole website shuts down. So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> After Facebook shutting down rumor spread like a fire on all over the internet. Mark Zukerberg and Facebook Officials denied by saying that there isn&#8217;t any truth in Rumor. So its been official now Facebook is not shutting down on March 15th. I am sorry guys we need to wait more for the big day <img src='http://sickfacebook.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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