hw smll cn u mk it?

intrnt lnguage &  sms lnguage jst go 2 shw hw lazy dis genrashn is. der is no such ting as pnctuatn, spellng or evn englsh 4 dat mattr – jst a lota cnsnants n numbrs.  Kids almst cmpet 2 c hu cn rite in d shrtest shrt hnd. d ting is dat evry1 cud undrstnd it, nt anymore, des days if u go on facbk , u cnt undrstnd haf d stuf cz its jst nt english – its eng.

Drew Barrymore in, “he’s just not that into you”

I liked these dialogues…

I liked this one because it is so true to what happens nowadays, she says:

“If I want to seem more attractive to the opposite sex, I don’t get my hair changed…I just update my profile”

To watch another one that I really liked, click here.

She is talking to her friend and she says:

“I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so called him at home and then he emailed me to my blackberry and so I texted to his cell and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals [like facebook] to get rejected by seven different technologies…..it’s exhausting!”

This just backs up my point that talking to faceless person for so long just gets you more and more depressed.

To watch a video of this on youtube click here

My Speech

The girls are waiting offstage for me, with daggers, totally disagreeing with what my views on Facebook are. I despise Facebook. The girls are not the only ones, according to Facebook, it has 175 million active users. 175 million! That’s more than the entire population of Russia on Facebook. The owners value their company at $10 billion. What! $10 billion for a web site that lets me say hi to someone, and share a picture or two. Be serious. I could buy a country, Iceland for example; after all there is a bid on eBay. But what makes Facebook so special, and more importantly, is it really safe?
I sometimes watch BBC’s tech show; Click. There was one particular episode that really showed how vulnerable one was when using Facebook. Facebook owes its popularity – apart from luck – to the fact that it offers users various third party applications; games and quizzes for example. The programmers at Click wrote a malicious program, in the form of a game which, if added, would steal all the users’ personal data and all their friends’ data without their knowledge. So, you don’t have to be careless, you just have to be a friend with someone who is. But it isn’t fair to point the finger of blame towards the user – it’s facebook’s fault. Facebook does have a team that checks for bad software, but they do that after the application has been posted. They should check the application before it has been posted, and before a user has added it. That way everything would have been filtered before public usage.
An identity is stolen every 4 seconds in the US. Criminals are doing it through facebook more and more. People are tempted into adding games, but some applications will steal your personal details….it is in a way like a Trojan horse: evil inside but nice outside. Now the criminal on the other end of the application has all the user’s personal information, all the information that you innocently enter when creating an account. Things like: name, email, age, sex…normal things which are always asked when setting up an account. But, it also allows you to enter: country; town; zip; school; company; address – you can see that anyone with any negative intentions knows exactly where you study, live and work. They also let you enter: relationship status; interested in; looking for…wait a minute, now Facebook is an online dating service as well! It lets you enter your mobile and home numbers, the criminal has all this if you entered it; and worst of all, I found while digging around, you could also enter your credit card number. Let me get this straight, the criminal now has the potential to steal your identity, empty your bank account and even rape you. If you don’t believe this is a reality, ask the king of Morocco’s brother, even he had his identity stolen though facebook.
Facebook thrives on people entering lots of information about themselves but they had to mention that we have to be careful so the sneaky devils wrote up a huge privacy policy in which was buried in small print, “we recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask for their parents permission before sending any information about themselves over the internet.” Is that enough? Honestly, do any of you ever read the privacy policy? No.
I don’t think that facebook has the right to sacrifice the safety of its users for the health of its business. But it has already done so; it has also sacrificed its popularity with the numerous reports of facebook linked identity theft flooding the media. This can’t go on. Facebook has to put more effort and money into the safety aspect but for now, facebook is potentially dangerous as the king of Morocco’s brother found out the hard way.

depressed girls

know what girls are like: yak yak yak yak…and that yacking consists of: OMG, did you see her clothes; you know he broke up with her; he’s with her again, that’s the forth time; you know what she said behind so and so’s back…….and so on.

It used to be confined to face to face talking, which wasn’t very long. then every teenager had a phone, then came facebook to make matters worse. There have been recent studies showing that girls have been getting more depressed if they have a facebook account.

for a full story visit gossip site,  daily mail

facebook statistics – with my input

source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Statistics from the link above, my input in red

General Growth

• More than 175 million active users
• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college     a useless fact…
• The fastest growing demographic is those 30 years old and older well yes, that covers about 70 years, ‘30 years and younger’ only covers 30 years

User Engagement

• Average user has 120 friends on the site half of whom they don’t actually know
• More than 3 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
• More than 15 million users update their statuses at least once each day
• More than 3.5 million users become fans of Pages each day

Applications

• More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month picasa beat you
• More than 5 million videos uploaded each month        you tube beat you
• More than 24 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month
• More than 2 million events created each month
• More than 20 million active user groups exist on the site

International Growth

• More than 35 translations available on the site, with more than 60 in development
• More than 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States 68% of which are in India

Platform

• More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
• More than 52,000 applications currently available on Facebook Platform that’s the whole problem – its the applications that are really dangerous
• 140 new applications added per day
• More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform that’s 95% of members at risk anyway

The Indian government has the right idea

No blogging or social networking for indian diplomats

Such a drastic measure cannot have been taken if there wasn’t some serious safety concerns. This is good enough evidence that facebook has a lot of work to do on the safety front and it is a very strong signal to all 175 million facebook users to be very careful of what information they are realeasing.  The internet was dangerous enough before, now facebook has made it even more dangerous.

The mad craze

Facebook  isn’t that great – come on, I can say hi to a friend and post a couple of pictures. 175 million people actually like it though, one of them is my friend. We were once filling out a random questionnaire and this is what one part of his looked like:

Q. If you were stranded on an island and you could only take one book, which book would you take

A. facebook

I felt like crying

BBC vs facebook

Identity ‘at risk’ on Facebook
Q&A: Facebook response

Here is my summary:

BBC: one                                                                      facebook: zero