Information Madness

Facebook is now a name in every household in the world. Its a fact that if you were to create a country out of Facebook users, it would be the third largest coutry in the world.

Last year Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Messenger for Windows Desktop and today Facebook has officially launched the Desktop Client of Facebook Messenger.

Few months ago, I noticed some unwanted and weird adult spam message into his status updates and realized that his account and computer was infected with some Facebook adult spam. The funny thing is, I couldn't find any facebook apps that he authorized or any viruses spams in his computer. After some digging I found out that it was Google Chrome's extension that was causing this issue.

A new report has stated that people are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks, whether it is fine tuning friends’ lists or removing unwanted comments and limiting access to their profiles. People are managing their privacy settings and their reputation online more often than they used to do a couple of years back. To give an example, 44% of people said last year that they deleted comments from their profile on a social networking site. Only 36% had done the same thing in 2009.

Twitter’s censorship plan is being criticized as it allows country specific censorship of tweets. This is causing a global outrage. Twitter is being pulled up for being honest about something that almost all internet platforms have to struggle with.  Whatever the case may be, the users are going to be losers even if the censorship happens in a secret way.

Social networking sites have drawn in users by millions since they have been introduced on the net. They are also rapidly drawing the attention of industry and academic researchers who are amazed at their reach.