Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

No matter how private Facebook may appear and how much you want to keep friends with your age old friends. Some of the users are always looking forward to make new friends. You can have many reasons as to why you rejected someone’s request: Spam, abuse already with the latest reason which says that you don’t know one.

While to many it might sound just like any other reason to turn down a request it actually helps you in the long run. How? I remember that I used to get multiple requests from three or four people times and again and no matter how many times they were turned down, one of them was bound to make the same request again. With this new option, it makes sure that Facebook blocks all future requests from this person. That in short means the reduction in the countless spam requests that keep hurling into your notifications.

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Yeah right! I feel suspicious over the statement given by Mark Zuckerberg at the crunchies. How can he say that so confidently? And more importantly on behalf of everyone using the beloved social network; Facebook? I have always thought of Facebook to be a very dictatorially controlled democracy. More importantly the words have come out on an issue of privacy that has so many of its users concerned.

Privacy is one major reason why people actually enjoyed using Facebook. I mean Orkut came in with a boom and it grew quite a lot until Facebook caved in with a more secure platform. You knew no stranger was watching your pictures or reading your wall posts. But things are been pushed off into some other direction. Of course user data is said to be kept private but emphasis has been laid upon opening up a bit of user information to the eyes of the search engines.

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Now if you are really into having people follow a certain thing or adopt a different strategy you need to lead from the front. And this is what Mark Zuckerberg is doing, following the textbook strategy. Nothing new here at all, rather more of a step towards making quite a bit of his profile open to public. Now, wouldn’t that make you feel all the new changes and updates more secure?

Of course not! Not at least to people who began using the social network for its very privacy and the emphasis on being a network for connecting with friends and keeping your updates, etc limited to only those you know or can relate to. But that’s changing and changing quite rapidly. Why? That is the real question which is pretty obvious to almost any Web savvy user, something I will come over to in a later post and talk about my views on why is this all happening?

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Woah, while the new privacy settings already have people going nuts and leaving a lot to be desired, Facebook is doing everything possible to annoy them more. It appears we bloggers should stop writing about the privacy settings, as the more we write the more users seem to point out the missing links and options. Presently we have another comment coming it that says News Feed and Wall settings have vanished. Why?

That feature gave users the option to auto generate a news feed about any changes you made across your profile, for example like changing your relationship status. Where has that disappeared? I am lost at this, what exactly is Facebook doing? First it gave us pretty chained customization options, making sure that users felt that they are being dictated what settings to follow and now they lessening those options too. I bet they must have merged it with the existing settings and when you select to share certain information with friends, a large chunk of your information is adjusted along with that.

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