With roughly 350 millions users, Facebook is enhancing its privacy controls and eliminating its regional framework for online communities.

When Facebook launched in early 2004 as an online network for college students to stay connected, the model centered on sharing information with “networks” of school friends. Over time, the network expanded to companies and regions as well.

Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, with some regions encompassing entire countries, such as India and China.

“As Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy,” Zuckerberg said.

“We are adding something that many of you have asked for – the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create of upload. In addition, we will also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy-settings page simpler by combining some settings,” he said.

“The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of our friends, or everyone.”

In the letter, Facebook’s users will be asked to review and update their privacy settings. A message on the site will explain the changes and take users to the page where they can update the settings, Zuckerberg said.

So far, more than 22,000 users have posted comments on Zuckerberg’s letter, most of which are positive feed backs.

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With roughly 350 millions users, Facebook is enhancing its privacy controls and eliminating its regional framework for online communities.

When Facebook launched in early 2004 as an online network for college students to stay connected, the model centered on sharing information with “networks” of school friends. Over time, the network expanded to companies and regions as well.

Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, with some regions encompassing entire countries, such as India and China.

“As Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy,” Zuckerberg said.

“We are adding something that many of you have asked for – the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create of upload. In addition, we will also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy-settings page simpler by combining some settings,” he said.

“The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of our friends, or everyone.”

In the letter, Facebook’s users will be asked to review and update their privacy settings. A message on the site will explain the changes and take users to the page where they can update the settings, Zuckerberg said.

So far, more than 22,000 users have posted comments on Zuckerberg’s letter, most of which are positive feed backs.

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The game as the name suggests allow Facebook users to farm; plough, seed, harvest along with rearing trees and animals, and own houses and decorations. It becomes addictive when users play it with their friends and try to level up and put their creativity in arranging and decorating their farms.

Micro-blogging site Twitter does not give directly comparable figures, but data from research firm Nielsen said traffic fell 27.8% between September and October to 18.9 million unique visitors.

Facebook’s strategy head Trevor Johnson told TechRadar, “Applications make up a huge part of Facebook. There are over 90,000 applications on Facebook.

“Sixty-nine million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.”

There has been speculation about the impact of the rapid growth of Facebook’s upstart rival Twitter on its user numbers.

But Facebook as a whole, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg, has 350 million users around the world.

The site said that worldwide it was achieving 200 billion page views a month, with 1.6 billion messages are sent daily through its chat tool.

In the UK, Facebook said it had 23 million unique users a month, with each of those logging on spending around 25 minutes on the website per day.

[Source: Sky News]

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The game as the name suggests allow Facebook users to farm; plough, seed, harvest along with rearing trees and animals, and own houses and decorations. It becomes addictive when users play it with their friends and try to level up and put their creativity in arranging and decorating their farms.

Micro-blogging site Twitter does not give directly comparable figures, but data from research firm Nielsen said traffic fell 27.8% between September and October to 18.9 million unique visitors.

Facebook’s strategy head Trevor Johnson told TechRadar, “Applications make up a huge part of Facebook. There are over 90,000 applications on Facebook.

“Sixty-nine million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.”

There has been speculation about the impact of the rapid growth of Facebook’s upstart rival Twitter on its user numbers.

But Facebook as a whole, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg, has 350 million users around the world.

The site said that worldwide it was achieving 200 billion page views a month, with 1.6 billion messages are sent daily through its chat tool.

In the UK, Facebook said it had 23 million unique users a month, with each of those logging on spending around 25 minutes on the website per day.

[Source: Sky News]

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Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the KoobFace malware campaign is now using a Christmas theme. This is not the first time the Koobface worm has infected social newtork sites.

The Koobface website offors a video posted by ‘SantA’ with the usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used to encourage the user to install and run a setup file. This file is currently detected by 16 out of 41 products, according to Virus Total.

The user on the compromised facebook page is presented with alink to a compromised site in switzerland. The user is redirected to one of the several Koobface websites through a malicious flash video file hosted on the compromised site.

If the user runs the infected file, the worm will automatically login to their Facebook, MySpace, and several other social networking sites and send messages to all their friends.

So be wary of this new worm with a Christmas theme, least it doesn’t make you and your pc merry this Christmas.

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I have also opened Emoticons Facebook group already has over 20 000 fans. This is much help in the development of this site, many people are donating money to this page, thank them a lot on it.

I really like Facebook Emoticons and all my friends. I hope you like them, without them the world nebi was the same, in that I am convinced.

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The worm posts an image on a victim’s Facebook Wall with a photo of a woman in a bikini and the message “click ‘da button, baby.”

Since wall posts are viewable by a Facebook user’s friends, if a friend clicks on the image and is logged into Facebook, the image is then posted to their own Wall. Their Web browser will then open a Web page with a larger version of the same image. A further click on “da button” redirects the friend to a pornography site, according to Roger Thompson chief research officer for antivirus vendor AVG Technologies.

Most likely the creators are earning money by directing referrals to the site.

Researchers aren’t quite sure exactly how the worm works but believe it may be a cross-site request forgery attack (CSRF) or a clickjacking attack or a mix of both.

Facebook warned its users not to click on suspicious links, though it will be hard enough to identify infected links given the monstrous amount of  Wall postings including graphics, applications, audio, video and other posts that usually appear all over on a Facebook profile wall.

So, surf safe and as you have got a vague idea of what the infected link will look like, yes a “bikini clad video” link, do your part by staying away from links posted through unknown source or strangers and remove the above said link if it ever comes up on our profile before it goes on a fission reaction and hope that some remedy will come out fast to tackle this thing.

Source: [ pcworld ]

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