Monday, February 8, 2010

Facebook is a Six-year-old


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If you've ever been around a six year old, you'll know that at times they'll make you laugh and at times you'll want to wring their neck, but above all you'll know not to tell them anything you don't want repeated to anyone who will listen.

Facebook turned six February 4, 2010, and by all accounts the social networking media is a typical six-year-old.

It seems to be liked well enough with a global membership of 350 million, 13 million in Canada.

It also seems that a large number of people would like to wring its proverbial neck. Concurrent with its recent birthday Facebook redesigned its interface, again. The last time such a change occurred, in October 2009, Facebook users created two groups grossing more than 3 million members in protest, the Guardian reported.

On a more harrowing note, recently the privacy commissioners of Canada and the European Union have lodged formal complaints against the site, regarding concerns about the site's December 2009 privacy settings review. The review was intended to improve the security of user's personal information, but has allegedly made the information more accessible.