Posted on March 24th, 2009 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: facebook, new design, online, petition against new facebook, protest, social networking

More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world. The group is pleading with the social network to “make small changes and make the transition easier to deal with.”
Facebook has redesigned its layout (second time in a year), in order to better compete with upcoming popular real-time microblogging service Twitter. But with the transition to the new interface complete, Facebook has fallen under heavy criticism this weekend for not listening to the wishes of its users, who vehemently protested against the change to the new layout. Also making its pages more advertiser friendly.
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Posted on March 11th, 2009 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: facebook, pictures, social networking, system failure

I got hundreds of email on this weekend about their pictures just disappeared from famous social networking site Facebook. When i refered to Facebook blog i got the shock of my life that Facebook lost more than 1 billion photograph, which are 10% – 15% of total photographs hosted on facebook due to hard drive failure.
According to Facebook several drives failed at once during a routine upgrade Friday night.
“You may have noticed in the past day that some photos aren’t appearing or are displaying a ‘question mark’ graphic when you go to view them. We’re trying to fully understand what happened, since simultaneous hardware failures like this are rare” Evan Priestley, an engineer at Facebook Inc.
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Posted on February 24th, 2009 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: children development, facebook, social networking, susan greenfield, teenagers, twitter

An Oxford University neuroscientist, Susan Greenfield says that social networking websites like Facebook are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users. Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are said to shorten attention spans, make young people more self-centered, and encourage instant gratification.
“We know how small babies need constant reassurance that they exist”, she told the UK’s Daily Mail.
“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.”
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: criminals, extremists, facebook, jihad, social networking, terrorism

After Spreading propaganda on YouTube, blogs and other social media websites with great success Islamic extremists, so called jihadists, are planning to put together their efforts on Social Networking sites, especially Facebook.
“We can use Facebook to fight the media,” notes a recent posting on the extremist al-Faloja forum, translated by Jihadica.com. “We can post media on Facebook that shows the Crusader losses.”
“We have already had great success in raiding YouTube,” the poster adds. “American politicians have used Facebook to get votes, like the house slave Obama.”
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: facebook, micael carr-gregg, security, social, social networking, status

According to a new study, If you are the one who update their status message on social networking sites like Facebook, regularly, then people can easily know what kind of a person are you.
The study has claimed that the short statement, which can be seen by hundreds of online friends, reveals much more about you than you think.
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by AZ
Category: facebook, Tags: 10, community, facebook, reasons, social networking, sucks, top

I have so many friends on facebook and everyone of them always ask me why i don’t join facebook community. So finally i joined facebook last month but after spending sometime on facebook i realized that facebook completely sucks and there are more useful ways to spend my time (and more fun ways to waste it).
Anyway here are 10 reasons facebook sucks. I think most of you guys will agree with me.
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