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60% Facebook Users are Thinking to Quit Facebook

AZ — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:25:50 +0000

Due to increasing Privacy concerns and other facebook controversies 60% Facebook users around the world are thinking to quit Facebook.

A poll survey conducted by IT security company, Sophos, revealed that almost two third of facebook users are considering leaving and 16% claiming to have already stopped using Facebook.

Facebook has been recently heavily criticized over privacy policy where Facebook can share user data across Facebook and with other websites.

Only recently, Facebook has been criticized over changes on how it can share user data across its site and with other websites. Media reports suggest that Facebook is planning to announce changes to its privacy settings within the next few days, but it is unclear as to whether any changes will be substantial enough to address user concerns.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented that the poll only shows that majority of users are “fed up” with the lack of control that Facebook gives users over their data. He said: “Most still don’t know how to set their Facebook privacy options safely, finding the whole system confusing”.

In response to the criticisms of Facebook’s privacy policy, a number of campaigns, including a “Quit Facebook Day” have been launched to increase public awareness of the issues.

Mr.Cluley said: “A mass exodus from Facebook seems unlikely, but Facebook members are clearly getting more interested in knowing precisely who can view their data”.

He continued: “people use Facebook to share private information and are unlikely to want their holiday snaps or new mobile number accidentally popping up all over the internet. With this survey showing that only 24% of users aren’t thinking about quitting, Facebook will need to make sure further changes to the privacy policy are clear, concise and in the interest of making it easier for members to know exactly who has access to whatever they chose to upload.”

During the online survey, Sophos asked Facebook users the question
“Do you think you will quit Facebook over privacy concerns?”

And the results varied from:
30% – Possibly
30% – Highly Likely
16% – Already Have
12% – NO
12% – Dont Think Likely

‘Facebook Aperitifs’ A Real Threat to French Authority

AZ — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:38:39 +0000

Last week 21-year-old man died after a huge binge drinking Party organized on Facebook. Its been reported that French authorities were calling for measures to control Facebook-organized cocktail parties after the incident.

According to the report the party was organized on Facebook and attended by an estimated 10,000 people in Western France town Nantes.

According to DW-World report: “There’s a growing trend in France of parties organized on Facebook turning into mass drinking binges of thousands of people. The death of a Nantes man has prompted concern in the government over ‘Facebook aperitifs.’”

During and after the party, police in Nantes arrested 41 people on charges of drug trafficking, public drunkenness and violence.

Mayor of Nantes, Jean-Marc Ayrault, said: “We cannot let something like this just pass.This is a national problem, and it must be dealt with on that level. We have to confront this new social phenomenon”.

Nantes was also the site of the first of the Facebook aperitifs in November, Dozens of young people passed out from drinking too much, and 38 had to be hospitalized, that have since spread to other parts of France.

The fad is growing more and more popular in France, with similar events having taken place in other cities earlier this year.

Its also been reported that Organizers of a Facebook aperitif near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on May 23 expect at least 50,000.

Facebook is a Stupid Idiot [Funny]

AZ — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:24:09 +0000

David Ippolito debuts his new facebook song at The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in New York City in 2010.

I found this really cool video song from internet. I loved it please write down your comments about this video.

Top 10 Reason Everyone Should Destroy Their Facebook Account

AZ — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:49:43 +0000

Here are top 10 reason why everyone should destroy/delete their Account on Facebook.

Facebook’s Terms Of Service are completely one-sided.
Facebook’s Terms Of Service state that not only do they own your data (section 2.1), but if you don’t keep it up to date and accurate (section 4.6), they can terminate your account (section 14).

Facebook’s CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior.
From the very beginning of Facebook’s existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg’s ethics. According to BusinessInsider.com, he used Facebook user data to guess email passwords and read personal email in order to discredit his rivals. However, These allegations are unproven and somewhat dated. They’re particularly compelling given that Facebook chose to fork over $65M to settle a related lawsuit alleging that Zuckerberg had actually stolen the idea for Facebook.

Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy.
Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook’s privacy changes last January: “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.” More recently, in introducing the Open Graph API: “… the default is now social.” Essentially, this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, and own that data, but to make it available to everybody.

Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch.
At the same time that they’re telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members. Bait-and-switch means that Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available. Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves.

Facebook is a bully.
When Pete Warden demonstrated just how this bait-and-switch works (by crawling all the data that Facebook’s privacy settings changes had inadvertently made public) they sued him. So why sue an independent software developer and fledgling entrepreneur for making data publicly available when you’re actually already planning to do that yourself? Their real agenda is pretty clear: they don’t want their membership to know how much data is really available.

Even your private data is shared with applications.
At this point, all your data is shared with applications that you install. Which means now you’re not only trusting Facebook, but the application developers, too, many of whom are too small to worry much about keeping your data secure.

Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted.
Even if we weren’t talking about ethical issues here, I can’t trust Facebook’s technical competence to make sure my data isn’t hijacked. For example, their recent introduction of their “Like” button makes it rather easy for spammers to gain access to my feed and spam my social network.

Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account.
It’s pretty tricky to really delete your account. They make no promises about deleting your data and every application you’ve used may keep it as well. On top of that, account deletion is incredibly (and intentionally) confusing. When you go to your account settings, you’re given an option to deactivate your account, which turns out not to be the same thing as deleting it. Deactivating means you can still be tagged in photos and be spammed by Facebook. Finally, the moment you log back in, you’re back like nothing ever happened! In fact, it’s really not much different from not logging in for awhile. To actually delete your account, you have to find a link buried in the on-line help. Basically, Facebook is trying to trick their users into allowing them to keep their data even after they’ve “deleted” their account.

Facebook doesn’t support the Open Web.
The so-called Open Graph API is named so as to disguise its fundamentally closed nature. It’s bad enough that the idea here is that we all pitch in and make it easier than ever to help Facebook collect more data about you. It’s bad enough that most consumers will have no idea that this data is basically public. It’s bad enough that they claim to own this data and are aiming to be the one source for accessing it. But then they are disingenuous enough to call it “open,” when, in fact, it is completely proprietary to Facebook. You can’t use this feature unless you’re on Facebook.

The Facebook itself sucks.
Between the farms and the mafia wars and the “top news” and the myriad privacy settings and the annoying ads and the thousands upon thousands of crappy applications, Facebook is almost completely useless. Yes, I could probably customize it better, but the navigation is ridiculous, so I don’t bother. And, yet, somehow, I can’t even change colors or apply themes or do anything to make my page look personalized. Let’s not even get into how slowly your feed page loads. Basically, at this point, Facebook is more annoying than anything else.

20% of Divorce Applications in UK cited Facebook

AZ — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:52:28 +0000

According to British divorce counseling firm Divorce-Online, 20% of divorce applications filed last year cited the Facebook that makes the ratio of one-fifth of the divorce petitions.

Australian Family Relationships Clearing House manager Elly Robinson said online behavior was causing friction in households.

Elly Robinson said: “People will come in (for counselling) where one partner may deny their online behavior has been any sort of problem, but the issue is … if it’s upsetting one of those people in the relationship, it’s a problem.”

She added: “Relationships develop more quickly online because inhibitions are lowered, it’s easy to exchange information, people are online 24/7, there’s an (endless) amount of people you can link up with who are there for the same reason, real life pressures fade away … it’s a bit of a fantasy world”.

Relationships Australia vice-president Anne Hollonds said while the internet had made it easier to reconnect with lost loves, people ultimately had to take responsibility for their actions.

She said: “The internet doesn’t make people have affairs. It’s become the pathway of choice for many people but I don’t think that means the internet is breaking up families. Everyone has some degree of fantasy about a love that might have been from the past and the technology now helps you find these people”.

FOXNEWS REPORT

20% Growth in Terrorism and Hate Groups on Facebook

AZ — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:01:36 +0000

We all know that Terrorists and Hate groups are always have their presence on internet and modern technology. However, they are growing and flourishing themselves quicker on social networking sites especially on Facebook.

According to a report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), groups that promote violence, terrorism, homophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of intolerance grew by 20% in the last year alone.

The SWC’s associate dean Abraham Cooper said in a news conference Monday. “The biggest growth is where [it] is for everyone: in social networks. In particular, Facebook is highlighted the most in the group’s report as places for people to gather and spread ideas, such as how to create cell phone detonators, Light Anti-Armor Weapons (LAW) missiles, and more. There were even hate games floating around online, such as one that focused on bombing Haitian earthquake victims.”

Unsurprisingly, terrorists and other groups have become fans of social networks because that’s where the kiddies are—young people are particularly vulnerable to messages from these groups, and if Facebook is the best way to reach them, then that’s where the groups will go.

SWC says that despite its members have met with Facebook officials to have some of these groups removed, but with over 200 million users, online bigots have to date outpaced efforts to remove them.”

1 in 3 Facebook Users Says They Have Been Bullied Online

AZ — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:17:17 +0000

Bullying has been in the news lately, but the revelations about Gordon Brown’s alleged shoving and swearing have diverted attention from other aggressive behavior that is growing and seems to be uncontrolled.

Internet bullying has seen very few trials, but because the daily misery of the victims and may end in suicide.

Social networking sites are popular with young Britons – about half are members, with 5.2 million 13 to 19 years subscribed to Facebook.

It is a great way to exchange news and keep in touch, but the downside can be huge, with one in three say they have been bullied online.

Social networking sites are impossible to police because of the large amount of material, with the result that a large amount of content is highly controversial.

A quick trawl shows how gangs use these sites to post threatening material intended to impress their rivals and scare off opponents.

Stuart Cunningham, Warwickshire, published a photo of himself in a hideous mask, brandishing a large knife in one site.

He is a gang member crew Overslade, in Rugby, where up to six rival gangs vie for territory and a series of fires resulted in the death of an elderly couple.

The Internet is where these bands post their threats and brandishing their weapons, and yet the police seem powerless to do anything about it until someone has been injured.

The Internet allows young people to glorify violence, presenting themselves as “soldiers” in their version of urban warfare and intimidate those who they please.

Rhys Jones was murdered in Liverpool in 2007 by a member of the Croxteth Crew, and five other gang members were convicted.

Facebook Can Limit Your Future Opportunities in a Huge Way

AZ — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:36:18 +0000

I’ve always been a pretty conservative. Well, that is, once I entered the business about 20 years ago. Recently I started to wonder how some of today’s youth seem to make decisions that limit their future opportunities in a huge way.

Just think about the last time you were eating in a restaurant and your server is presented with large type “disc” hoops that look so painful. Have you ever seen what your ears look like when they bring their ears rings? YIKES! And when you see a very attractive woman and once you get a closer look he sees a strange tattoo on his neck, just below your ear. It hides under the neckline. Right of the view clear in an area that could never hide that, without a band aid.

I am sure that when you see people who have made these decisions do not look and wonder if they ever going to serve a public office or be the next CEO of Fortune 50 companies. In fact, you probably can eliminate 80% of the races that could be potentially eligible if they had not made those decisions. Please do not take what I’m saying the wrong way. I think everyone has the opportunity to do all that we want and I am not some elitist snob who believes that everyone should aspire to achieve a higher corporate position. I think if you’re doing something you enjoy doing, you have the ability to make a positive impact in this world. I simply think that sometimes people are very myopic in their decision process and not think about the impact on the lives of their decisions can make.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and frankly, anything you put online can have the same impact! I was recently reading a status update of one of my “Facebook friends” made, and I was absolutely amazed at the insensitivity of the remark. I was totally surprised that it could have been so myopic and put something like that out there … even if it was simply an attempt at humor.Now sick sense of humor I have a pretty radical and, indeed, can participate in a sense of humor sometimes very off color. I can assure you that time are in private and certainly would never be published online!

Each time you publish something on your website or the favorite of social media, the keystrokes will live forever! If you happen to have children I’m sure we’ve had this conversation with them and if you have not … stop reading now and run to where they are and have to talk immediately! Any smart employer will use Facebook, MySpace, and anywhere else in the media, to control a potential new employee. They simply type their name into Google and be presented with a quick view of the fingerprint that you’ve created over the years. The headlines are full of examples of people whose lives are completely uprooted simply because they have acted before thinking about the possible consequences they would face.

I am a big fan of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a number of other social media sites. I love the way they can stay connected to a large number of people without the need to lift the phone, send a letter or email. I reach that of their peers in day to day without reaching out. I simply think of each and every one of us has to be very aware that every action we take online is very public, and something that will haunt you if you are not careful. Be sure to take every precaution he can to protect their reputation. Especially if you are going to publish something everyone can see.

Student to take legal action against his suspension for Facebook posting

AZ — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:53:05 +0000

The family of a student from suburban Chicago high school is considering legal action against the school after her son was suspended for something he wrote on his Facebook page.

Justin Bird, 16, sophomore at Oak Forest High School, used his Facebook page, for criticizing a teacher.

Oak Forest High School superintendent says the Facebook announcement interrupted the school day, so the student was suspended.

The suspension of bird has raised questions about whether school officials exceeded their authority.

A few keystrokes, mouse click and a new Facebook page, was born. And almost as, was suspended Justin Bird.

“I did this on this laptop in my room, sitting in my chair. I do not know how they can come to my house and suspend me for what I did in my spare time,” Bird said.

Bird admits that fans created a Facebook page in which he called a teacher in a derogatory name. About 50 people have become followers. And then Justin took it down. But the next day at school, was suspended for five days. His parents are now considering taking legal action against the school.

“I do not think this is the site of the school to enter our house and say … my child is suspended for something he did at home,” said Donna Bird, Justin’s mother.

High School District 228 Superintendent Bill Kendall says what Bird wrote was “disrespectful, inappropriate and lewd. Although it has been done in house, broke the school”.

However, the American Civil Liberties Union says that this case is part of a growing trend across the country.

In another instance, Katherine Evans was suspended from her school in Florida to write on a Facebook page that her teacher was “the worst teacher you’ve had.” Last week, a federal judge ruled that Evans could sue the principal.

Legal experts say that while students are not threatening a teacher, which are protected by the First Amendment, particularly at home.

“We need a kind of non-governmental agent in your way to school in households and correcting the behavior of school simply because they think somehow involved,” said Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the ACLU.

Legal experts say there is much uncharted territory in the world of social networks. It may be a while before the U.S. Supreme Court have a case, because much of the time, parents and students are so embarrassed that they accept the punishment and move on.

Facebook Bad for You [Video]

AZ — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:55:52 +0000

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