A question constantly asked by Facebook when you open your Facebook page.
You can tell your friend...Your friend's friend will know...
Your friend's friend's friend will know..
And may be an old friend which you used to know and never saw for many years, see your update and take note what is in your mind.
Some countries ban Facebook for many reasons... political or otherwise.
Some business companies ban Facebook because they do not want their employees to waste the work time in sending updates of what there are in their minds!!
Who uses Facebook?
Basically almost everyone...
It is the most used social network by worldwide active users.
Gartner Research predicts that by 2012—the end of the freaking Mayan calendar—”Facebook will lead the pack in developing the distributed, interoperable social Web through Facebook Connect and similar mechanisms.
The interoperability will be critical to survival of other social networks.
Other social networks (including Twitter) will continue to develop…However, they will all revolve around Facebook.” In other words Facebook will control the universe.
The universe may or may not include your disposable income.
Flickr asked whether Facebook is the Antichrist?
Many advertisers removed their adverts from the site because they were being displayed on pages of controversial individuals or groups.
Facebook was and still is criticized for promoting controversial issues and it was sued several times for violation of intellectual properties.
There have been some concerns expressed regarding the use of Facebook as a means of surveillance and data mining. According to the policy, "We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services and other users of Facebook, to supplement your profile
A second clause that warranted criticism from some users reserved the right to sell users' data to private companies, stating "We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship." This clause was eventually removed... But who knows where the information collected has gone.
Third party applications have access to almost all user information and "Facebook does not screen or approve Platform Developers and cannot control how such Platform Developers use any personal information."
In May 2010 Facebook quietly implemented several changes, including a feature available before December 2009 to allow users to limit the visibility of friends lists. The changes included an option not available before to make the friends list visible to the user only ("Only me" as a "Custom" setting, although before December 2009 it had been possible to achieve the same aim by customizing the settings to exclude all individual friends from seeing the list). In practice, the functionality restored, combined with the "lists" feature, can force friends to view only the "mutual friends" of the list in which a particular friend is included. As of May 5, 2010 the Privacy Policy still indicated that the last revision was implemented on April 22, 2010.
Facebook has received criticism from users and from people outside the Facebook community about hosting pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia information. British eating disorder charity B-EAT called on all social networking sites to curb "pro-ana" (anorexia) and "pro-mia" (bulimia) pages and groups, naming MySpace and Facebook specifically.
Many critics have criticized Facebook as a possible tool for cyber-bullying, with the possibilities of anonymous profiles and the creation of groups allowing bullies to target individuals online.
In Italy, the discovery of pro-mafia groups caused an alert in the country and brought the government, after a short debate, to rapidly issue a law which will force ISPs to deny access to entire sites in case of refused removal of illegal contents; the removal can be requested by a prosecutor in any case in which there is a suspicion that criminal speech (a defense of or incitement to crime) is published on a website.
Two interesting trends have emerged in the Facebook audience figures. First, more women use Facebook, regardless of age. Second, the site continues to see more growth with users over age 26, with the majority of the growth coming from users 35 to 44 years of age.
Some Researchers have concluded that teenage girls who spend lots of time with their friends talking about their problems on Facebook and other social network sites, are more prone to anxiety and depression than girls who do not.
Parents have almost lost their control over their children with regard to the people they move with and the intimacy they share with their friends online? The moment you display any information on the web no matter how regulated it is with the privacy settings, it simply means you are disclosing information to the whole world.
“Nothing Is Private in Facebook”
So who uses Facebook?
Everyone
Anyone... who wants to show off, publicize, reveal secrets, make a scandal, start a fight, put an idea, make a propaganda, make a new friend, hack another person's life, spread a rumor and of course ruin his own life and the lives of others...
Last week we heard in the news that a Saudi woman beat up her husband because he was using facebook in bed.
The story took more publicity because it happened in Saudi Arabia..
Similar and worse stories happen all over every day... some we know about some we do not..
So
What is on your mind?
It seems eventually your Facebook page is always on your mind.
Sami Cherkaoui
on my mind : facebook is very addictive, everyone uses it, we see it everywhere, in tv adds, on internet adds, even in movies they talk about it, everyone uses it, younger and older people. it is strange how everyone updates their every move, in some way its like its a ''spying machine'' universal.
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