Twitter, FaceBook, Myspace, Hi5 – Have we taken a overdose of Social Networking?

Social Networking compared to 5 years back was nothing as it is today. But looking at the statistics with growth over 200%, do you think it is doing any good to us?

Researches confirming that Twitter Makes us immoral, Scientists telling that Social Networking websites like FaceBook may end Face to Face meet up which may lead to cancer and many weird Results coming out like Couple splitting because of Second Life, and so on.

These Website’s are causing more harm than they are doing good , Scientists Claim.

Today, Apart from All these things, they are taking a Very precious thing from users, that is time. Yes, People spending 5-6 hours just writing short status updates rather than performing some, Playing some dum Car games and challenging other people to do so and score more points them, Answering useless quizzes. And if we see that 4o% of the population of the Social Networking websites are Under 18 and so this may lead to lowering of their Grades.

Also not this but increase in Cyber Crime has also increased since the invention of these websites because this is a tool which gives any user the power of anonymity which is very dangerous. Social Networking websites like Twitter, have become mainstream which means that they control spreading of most information and therefore indirectly making them the rulers and this can also lead to spread of Wrong Information for which no one can be blamed because of Anonymity.

With Social Networking Getting Attention from All sources including press, Television, Radio and so on, You have no other choice than to join it.

This is My point of View as a Teenager, Student. If you have something to say or disagree with my point, your are free to discuss it in the comments below.

Does FaceBook delete your photo instantly after you do so?

The answer to above’s question is answered by a research done where Images were uploaded on famous social networking websites like Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, LiveJournal, MySpace and many others and Each of the image url was noted. Then Later All of the images were deleted. 

It was Found that many website’s did not delete the photographs even after 30 days, while some did instantly.

For our experiment, we uploaded a test image onto 16 chosen sites with default permissions, then noted the URL of the uploaded image. Every site served the test image given knowledge of its URL except for Windows Lives Spaces, whose photo servers required session cookies (a refreshing congratulations to Microsoft for beating the competition in security). We ran our initial study for 30 days, and posted the results below. A dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days

Here are the Results of the research -

Did not remove photographs even after 30 days - Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, LiveJournal, MySpace

Removed Photographs in 30 days - Blogger, Friendster,  Tagged, Picasa

Websites which removed photographs instantly -  Orkut, Windows Live Spaces, Photobucket & Flickr

Users need to be very careful while uploading images on The social networking websites as You never know that your image, even after you delete, may be still present you may even fall into some kind of trouble!

Thanks OnlyGizmosMashable and  Light Blue TouchPaper

How a FaceBook Ad can Fool you and charge you $19.99

If you are a FaceBook savvy then you really need to know this.  Majority of Users Don’t even bother to have a look at all the terms and Conditions and go ahead and give out Personal Information like Phone Numbers and Participate in various programs.

Same thing happened here. An IQ test ad on FaceBook took us to the quiz where the results would only be revealed by texting it to your Cell Phone Number.  But wait! What do you get intead of your results??

You gotta read the Terms before participating. I don’t think anyon e could have read it as it was in very small font size. For others below is the Copy of it.

Here’s a view of the terms and conditions -

Summary of Terms
Welcome to the Official Mobile IQ Quiz! After completing the mobile
quiz, we will calculate your score and ask you to enter your cell
phone number to gain access to your IQ results as well as a mobile
content subscription. Depending on your carrier and cell phone
manufacturer, the mobile content may include ringtones, games,
wallpapers, or fun text messages. This content will cost as much as
$19.99 per month and will be sent to your cell. If you would not like
to sign up for the subscription content to your phone to see your
results, simply click the Get Results link on the cell phone entry
page to view how you did!

 Thanks Consumerist.

FaceBook crosses 200 Million users mark!

It’s Party Time for FaceBook Founder Mark Zuckerberg as FaceBook Has Finally Crossed 200 Million Active Users! FaceBook was originally started in 2004 and today FaceBook has Grown into a $516 Million Company with it’s private advertising platform. crosses

FaceBook Went from 100 Million users to 200 million Users in just 8 months. And if this continues, then in next 2 years FaceBook will be able to cross more than 500 Million Active Users.  You can Read Mark Zuckerbergs post here.

FaceBook can kill users real soon

Social Networking is on the Rise and sites like Twitter and Facebook are growing at the speed of light. But yes as we know every bit of Good surely has some bad part.

A reasearch Suggests that these social networking website are Increasing the Risk of Cancer. If the question is how, then the answer is this that People nowadays are interacting with other people via the internet and therby reducing offline meetups and so if there is no Offline interacting this may increase the risk of Cancer. This may be shocking for many of the users but yes, this is true.

Facebook to Soon lift Friend limits : Soon you can make unlimited Friends on Facebook!

Facebook, one of the fastest Growing Social Networks has a Friend Limit (if you know). It says that any user cannot have more than 5000 friends. Now The reason behind this is unclear. May be it’s because they don’t want people to spam. Twitter also has a limit of 2000 Follows and this limit can only be lifted if you have 2000 people following you.twittermark

Now what’s the news is that recently Mark Zuckerberg (the guy behind Facebook) had posted a status which clearly stated that Soon Facebook users can add unlimited friends. This is not confirmed but this may be a possibility in near Future. This would give another boost to Facebook and then people especially companies will use Facebook as a marketing tool if they can make unlimited friends.

Why did Facebook Change their TOS?

facebook_tosRecently Facebook was in the news for Just secretly changed it’s Terms of Service. Actually the thing i found funny the most was that the change was actually useless. Facebook had made a change that anyone who would post any info on facebook , the information would become the property of Facebook even after you delete your Account.

I actually can’t figure out what was the reason behind changing the Tos.  May be because Twitter Was gaining all the attention so May be facebook had become desperate for some more users?

I think so one thing that advantageous for Facebook was that we all know this is the era of blogs and so there are thousands on Enthusiastic Blogger’s waiting to Publish A story so taking advantage of that Facebook was possible in gaining attention of people. But by Monday Facebook finally reverted to its old Tos.

Well today you need to be very careful with every one word you post online as you are not aware of the audience who might read it or to he might put it to what use.

Image Credit :  Abc News

Using Facebook at High Extent May Cause Cancer

I know its amazing to know that Facebook may cause cancer but the truth is this. Today’s leading social networking website with over 150 Million active users may contribute to causing Cancer.

You might be wondering how then here’s how – “Social networking sites such as Facebook could raise your risk of serious health problems by reducing levels of face-to-face contact, a doctor claims.” 

I couldn’t believe but yes this is the reality. Social Netoworking in a little more time may completely destroy the concept of Actually Meeting and then we would end up sitting on our computer telling the world we made these many friends but we will loose our health and remember “Health is Wealth” so if any thing harms your health try reducing it by a certain limit as Social Meet ups are very good for humans so jump out of your computer and meet up!

New version of Facebook for Iphone released!


Facebook after it’s great success, the version 2.0 has been released for the Iphone.

Groups like ‘Facebook said if i get 5,000,000 people in this group they’de change it bak‘ are getting popular as people really liked the older version of the facebook.
Some better upload options have also been pushed in like after uploading a image we can add captions to it with tags and also some content with the image.

The news feed (the one which tells you about what your friends are doing) is just as same as it is on facebook’s original website.

There has been addition of a feature of searching people and also requesting people via search to be your friends. Isn’t it nice?

You need to download Facebook application, which you can get from the iTunes App store free of charge.

India – orkut craze over and facebook fever started?

what the hell?
yes , nearly 3/4 indian orkut users are moving from orkut to facebook!
even according to alexa.com facebook ranks 6th in traffic where as orkut has gone down to the iith position!

why did users find facebook more interesting than orkut?

here is the answer
this is because facebook’s got lot’s and lot’s of features more than orkut like applications, pages, poke feature, online chat, quizzes and so on…
orkut has only got groups, friends, and scraps and that’s it.