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image thumb40 Facebook Privacy Settings: Seriously That’s The Best It Can Offer!

The changes, the updates and all associated to the much loved privacy on the Facebook platform have raised quite a controversy. I guess that has something to do with the initial post about the updates being very vague, not to forget that many users found them to be having them go public. Well the social network is helping its users with a three step transition to help them get along with the new privacy settings, hoping that it satisfies every user of the platform. And they are so bent upon having you see the transition steps that they wont show you the setting unless you have seen the steps.

I was reading a comment from our reader and he complained:

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image thumb34 Zynga’s Farmville on Facebook: 70 Million Monthly Addicts and Growing Strong

Social Networking is seeing a boom and with it clings tight social gaming and its growing as rapidly as anything. I am not going to talk about social networks everywhere but stick to Zynga and its winning Farmville. While Facebook has long crossed the 350 Million mark, the game I hate to much has stepped past 70 Million farmers, I am so not calling them users!

70 Million monthly users, that is a huge number and I bet its just the beginning of it. The stats are way over my head, primarily because Zynga itself has around a 100 Million users. Plus the application for Facebook has crossed all limits with a daily user limit crossing 28.4 Million and it calls out loud to any challengers to give it a tough fight. Guess there is no one there to even think of it. Why exactly are people so crazy about it?

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