Facebook tops 350 million users, tightens privacy
The fastest growing social networking web site, Facebook had topped 350 million users earlier this week.
Facebook is now looking forward to enhancing the privacy controls and eliminating its regional framework for online communities.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder announced the new changes and the new milestone in a blog post late on Tuesday. He also added that the new privacy features will let users determine who gets to see pictures, comments, videos and other material in their respective profiles. “We’re adding something that many of you have asked for, the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload,” he wrote.
He further added, “To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information.”
He added, “Some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy.”
“The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.”
Google, Facebook launch Persian services
The global internet search giant Google Inc announced on Friday that the company has launched a Farsi translation service for the Iranians.
On the same day, social networking giant Facebook, also announced the launch of their Persian version.
Since the last week’s disputed presidential elections, Iranians and many other international media outlets have used internet and social networking sites to communicate to the world.
Announcing the addition of Farsi to Google Translate, a free online service, Google’s principal scientist, Franz Och, said, “We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran.
At the Google’s official blog, the latest blog post read, “Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa — increasing everyone’s access to information.”
On the other hand, Facebook’s engineer’s blog post read, “Since the Iranian election last week, people around the world have increasingly been sharing news and information on Facebook about the results and its aftermath. Today we’re making the entire site available in a beta version of Persian.” Several thousand people posted a “thumbs up” reaction to the news, denoting their approval.”
The e-life.
The internet, everyone knows how good it is, and how useful, and how… well… basically, its something of the next big thing after the wheel and fire, isn’t it?
I just realized how true that statement is. The internet has already become as integrated into our lives as the wheel and fire are.
Its odd, but I’m not someone who spends hours chatting to people. In fact, I rarely have conversation except to distract of absolute boredom, or chard plans of action, and its usually the latter. But these holidays, I found myself with access to the internet.
Not sure what to do with a connection, I went through the same paces of downloading music, movies, porn, etc. ran through my profiles on Orkut, Facebook, and the like. Then there was no more to do.
I mean I know the net can be used for a lot more, and I have in the past done so variously, to download articles for college, book tickets and the usual assortment of things, but this was different… I didn’t want to do more.
I just sat there, alternating between gmail, orkut and facebook, hoping someone would have something to say to me. I am not sure who, or about what, but I kept waiting. I’ve signed into gmail at least 6 times a day in the last week, and been disappointed that no one has had anything to say to me.
It is this that I find odd. That suddenly I want people to have things to say to me. I know, its always true, the ego boost of someone wanting to speak to you is pretty big, but now I was disappointed that no one did. I mean its okay to walk down a corridor and no one stop you to chat, but its not okay for no one to have written on my wall, mailed me or in some way tried to get in touch with me.
I thought maybe its because I have so few friends, then I thought, may be its because I have an attitude problem.. then I thought I should change myself, and become more amicable, so that people mail me more.
While I agree that being nicer would be better for anyone, but wanting to change just so people scrap me more? That is a little messed up… which is why I’m writing this.
I live in hostel, which means it’s a literal face book scenario, everyone meets everyone, everyday, but nothing in college has made me want to change myself… yet the net did. It’s the same group of people online that I socialize with offline too.
This sudden urge to be popular scares me, I’m not sure what’s causing it… I’ve never wanted popularity like this before, and I cant understand why its such a driving impulse. I wonder if others feel the same. Judging by the number of hours that people spend online these days, perhaps they do. And that is something else that scares me.
But perhaps when fire was first discovered it too must have been scary, as must have been the sudden need to keep warm. I mean, no one could have felt the need for warmth, until they found they could have it so easy. Or maybe the analogy is not fair, because on the one hand I’m talking about physical comfort, in being warm by a fire, and the other is a psychological one… then again isn’t cold felt, and processed by the brain… may be we could do without ACs too.
Use the Net to Discover Old Friends
With the passage of time, many among us lose touch with old friends. As priorities in life change, so does the immediate social circle. But now the internet can help you to get in touch with your old neighbourhood pal or school chum. Here are a few ways to rekindle old ties over the internet.
Reunion.com is an amazing site for digging up old contacts. You can search for long lost friends or just see who is looking for you. You can even use the site to organize and track people down by creating a profile for yourself and then search by name or school. Best of all, the site is free and you only need to register yourself to get started.
The whole world is talking about Facebook. The exceedingly popular social networking site not only allows you to create your own social circle but tracks people down from your past with their present contact details.
Classmates.com is much more than a site for finding friends from school or college. It can help you to look up co-workers from your previous jobs and help active or ex-military personnel to recover old buddies. You can get started on this site by setting up your profile based on your state and school in which you studied.
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