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Half of American Thinks Facebook will Fade Away Soon

AZ — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:22:46 +0000

According to a recent poll by AP and CNBC held earlier this month, 46% American thinks that Facebook will fade away as soon as new thing come up. Poll was held by Associated Press and CNBC on 1,004 people all over America on telephone.

General thinking is that Facebook with more than 900million users all over the world is very popular but the poll shows that only 51% American users are in favor of Facebook compare to 71% for Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Survey also exposed the ability of Owner of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg as Only 18% American are confident about Mark Zuckerberg leadership qualities with 40% says “Somewhat Confident” and 20% believes that Mark Zuckerberg is not a person to own a successful business.

On a question “As a Company, How do you feel Facebook is Valued”. 50% rated Facebook IPO are overvalued with 32% rated Fairly valued.

Facebook has been facing privacy issue since its beginning so when people are asked on privacy 59% say they have little or no faith in Facebook to protect their privacy.

Survey also mentioned that 54% Americans do not feel safe while purchasing good and services on facebook with only 8% feel safe in doing purchases of goods and using services like clothing or travel on facebook.

And most importantly is that Advertisers and Businesses who thinks facebook as a great tool of marketing their products should think otherwise as the survey shows 83% users have hardly ever or never clicked on advertising or sponsored content when using the site.

Point to be noted here is that among 1,004 people who are surveyed 3 out of 7 use facebook everyday and those who are in favor of Facebook have made their opinion after watching “The Social Network” movie based on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook is Cheating its Users with Sponsored Stories

AZ — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:56:30 +0000

Couple of years ago Facebook tried an attempt to integrate news-feeds with advertisements called ‘Facebook Beacon’. Due to privacy concerns Beacon was the target of a lawsuit filed in 2008, and the service shut down in September 2009. Although after Beacon Incident Mark Zuckerberg already have apologized by promising that it will not be concern again but experts believe that “Sponsored Stories” is a reborn of a Beacon. In simple words “Sponsored Stories” is another Facebook’s viral marketing product which turns its users’ posts into advertisements for participating companies’ users post about. Check out this Official video for Introducing Sponsored Stories.

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David Berkowitz, Senior Director of Emerging Media & Innovation for digital marketing describe Facebook Sponsored Stories as: “Facebook’s latest advertising offering, Sponsored Stories, is characteristic of the company: bold, clever and lacking empathy”.

Furthermore According to CNN Money report “Users can not prefer, filter or stop once they ‘Like’ or ‘Checked In’ to sponsored company’s brand on Facebook. This automatically leads to a Sponsored Story which users’ friends/friends of friends will get in their news feed without their concerns”.

Bruce Schneier, Remowned Security Author, explains it as: “Don’t make the mistake of thinking you are just a Facebook user, you are not – you are the product, its customers/users are the advertisers”. Mr.Schneier added to his statement that Facebook deliberately killing privacy. Mr.Schneier said that “When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product”.

Sponsored Stories not good for Businesses as well
On the contrary on business side “sponsored stories” are not considered as cheap/cost efficient. It can get easily spammed and can be devastating if do not carry out with a proper planning. In case of well planning it is not practically a long run approach as fans put-off by doing this frequently in the near future. In order to get desired response strong story and incentives required for motivating the visitors to push the Like button.

Facebook Cheating its Users
Besides such security issues Facebook somehow managed to engage 500 million users on its platform. But an insight on Facebook enlightens that from the day of “Initial-Public-Offering(IPO)” Facebook is struggling to generate any income at all. So far cheating it’s users by trading their precious and private data is the only way of making money they came up with.

Rainey Reitman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says: “Facebook ‘like’ buttons are increasing in prevalence, raising serious privacy concerns for those who value the privacy of their online reading habits”.

All of this happening with the fact that Facebook had a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing to get users’ permission before altering privacy settings and submitting to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years.

Facebook customers should think that at what cost (privacy, security, unpaid etc) they like something publicly because this makes companies keenly interested in who you are and where you’re surfing. And according to my opinion that no matter what Facebook stakes its users and leave them unpaid…

Facebook’s position will always remain bad in news for such allegations and charges as with no profitability experts believe that this modern misery will soon end badly anyway!

Every 5th Divorce Petition is Reference to Facebook

AZ — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:03:42 +0000

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 the telegraph Facebook is cited in one out of every five divorce petitions. Also we reported last year that 20% Divorces in UK cited Facebook.

There are various reasons of that but the most common some are given below

Seeing an old/new picture worth a thousand words.
Tagging someone/ partner rudely.
Search of former partner causes unreasonable behavior.
Lack of attention towards partner.
Flirty wall post, comments, or Inbox messages on Facebook.
Relationship status as it clearly portrait season/time of year and relationships.

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’s Facebook revenge costs £22,000 damages but also extremely humiliating. as reported in ‘the guardian’, ‘BBC News’ , ‘sky news’ and ‘the telegraph’.

Also Authorities of different countries blame Facebook for ruining users’ relationship; According to Pew Internet and American Life Project report one in five adults use Facebook for flirting’. 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!

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.

70% Facebook Users Rejected New Facebook Timeline

AZ — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:19:59 +0000

According to Sodahead.com poll held in early february 2012, Facebook users has rejected facebook timeline with 70% of them hate new facebook timeline for accounts with both genders male and female facebook users doesn’t like facebook timeline. According to the poll 77% male and equally 77% female users hate new facebook timeline. In my opinion facebook is trying to kill facebook by their own hand by introducing complicated stuff like facebook timeline.

Here is a poll result from sodahead.com.

How Google+ will Kill Facebook Very Soon

AZ — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:21:57 +0000

Since its released, Google+ is continue to threat facebook. Although Google+ is still not that much popular as Facebook currently is but Google+ has some really cool features such as Google+ has better privacy policy than Facebook, Google+ let you choose between circles (what to share and what not to share to irrelevant people in your circles). This video will show you exactly how Google+ will kill facebook very soon.

Facebook is Reading Private Text Messages from Your Mobile

AZ — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:40:54 +0000

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’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.

In a statement Facebook spokesperson said: “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’t launched anything yet so we’re not using the permission”.

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.

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.

Member of Privacy International Campaign group, Emma Draper told reporters: “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.”

So we should rethink while using facebook apps and other mobile apps even the popular ones. They all are accessing your private data.

President Obama Banned His Daughters to Use Facebook [Total Respect]

AZ — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:25:50 +0000

As we all know that President Obama doesn’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 Facebook page. And now its been reported that President Obama has banned his daughters from using Facebook.

Uk newspaper Mail Online reported on Saturday that President Obama, also called “First Social Media President”, said: “It does not make much sense to put the most private details of his family life on public view and he doesn’t want strangers knowing their family business”.

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.

The Statement comes after many private photos on his official Facebook page revealed. In an interview Mr. President said: “Why would we want to have a whole bunch of people who we don’t know knowing our business? That doesn’t make much sense. We’ll see how they [his daughters] feel in four years”.

However, earlier this week White House released latest official family portrait with the caption “The new Obama Family Portrait”. 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.

Without thinking of president obama’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.

Facebook Users Exposed Facebook Account Security Flaw by Posting Mark Zuckerberg Personal Pictures

AZ — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:43:31 +0000

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 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 “It’s time to fix those security flaws Facebook”. Images included Mark Zuckerberg picture with girlfriend preparing food in kitchen, holding a chicken and a meeting with US President Barak Obama.

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.

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.

In a statement Facebook says: “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’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”.

High Court Ordered to Ban Facebook in Pakistan by 6th October 2011

AZ — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:53:23 +0000

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 holding notorious competition based on blasphemous caricatures on May 20, 2011. The court has ordered the government to disabled Facebook or ban Facebook and deliver a compliance report by October 6, 2011.

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:

You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.

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 Facebook terms:

You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
We respect other people’s rights, and expect you to do the same.
You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law.
We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it violates this Statement.

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?

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Is Facebook Really Bringing Friends Together?

AZ — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:07:47 +0000

Facebook with other similar kind of sites like myspace, twitter called themselves Social Networking Sites and now they are so big they can be consider as Social Media sites as well. However, the big question is “Is Facebook Really Bringing Friends Together?”

So many people who are addicted to facebook would answer in “yes” but many of us know that it is not true at all. In fact, In reality it is totally different. You are wasting too much time on some very un-important activities on facebook like sharing photos, poking each other and updating your status. In reality you can have more fun compare to your useless time on facebook like going out with friends and sharing your pictures in personal, Have fun time with your friends and for those who stays away, believe me, they will love you more when you call them via phone or skype(video call) instead of writing on their wall.

So, My answer would be, NO, Facebook is really taking away your friends from you instead of bringing them to you. So, Start living an actually fun loving life instead of wasting time on facebook.

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