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Know your Facebook Better or Have a Facebook Addiction Disorder
We must confess to the fact that Facebook is not just a social network but has become a way of life for most of us. Logging on to the site seems to be an integral part of our daily life.
Here are a few fun facts you didn’t know about your favourite social adda: Facebook deletes accounts with strange sounding names like ‘Leboe’, ‘Allien’ etc. These names could be genuine but Facebook will delete them without any further explanation!
Scientists have introduced a new diagnosis which they call ‘FAD’ or Facebook Addiction Disorder according to which people actually suffer from an addiction to Facebook and this must be treated in a certain way.
Were you aware that Syria has banned Facebook? This has apparently been done due to the government’s fear of people creating virtual societies which may result in an uprising of sorts.
Facebook has more than 300 million active users. It has had a growth rate of 250% in 5 years! It is interesting to find that more than 60% men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex! Facebook is the perfect place to find out what your ex has been up to since your break-up and it seems that people around the world make the most of the information provided by this site!
Did you know that the number of pictures uploaded daily on Facebook is over 14 million? Also, this social network officially became Facebook.com in August 2005 when it purchased the web address for a sum of $200,000! The original founder and CEO of Facebook is 24 year old Mark Zuckerburg who has been named the world’s youngest billionaire worth $1.5 billion. Mark, along with three of his roommates, created Facebook while attending Harvard University and launched the site on February 4, 2004.
Facebook is used so regularly that more then 40 million status’s are updated daily! Around 70% of college students on Facebook log in every single day. Although Facebook is popular amongst all age groups, it is estimated that 85% of college students have Facebook profiles.
Western Digital Introduces WD TV LIVE HD Media Player
Western Digital has introduced the WD TV Live HD media player featuring network capability and Full-HD 1080p resolution. The new WD TV Live HD media player makes it possible for anyone to play HD videos stored on USB and network drives, as well as Internet content from popular Web sites. The GUI is also souped up, with Video preview being new candy.
The network capability of the WD TV Live media player enables users to stream or transfer movies from PC or Mac computers or a network-attached storage device. The WD TV Live media player also allows users to stream rich content from YouTube, Flickr and Pandora.
“The media enthusiast community has embraced the first WD TV HD media player and given us tremendous feedback,” said Sharad Srivastava, Director, Director India and South Asia, Western Digital. “With the new WD TV Live media player we’re giving them what they asked for — network connectivity and Internet-content streaming capabilities — and offering them a simple way to enjoy all of their digital media and enjoy it on their HD TVs.”
Features of the WD TV Live HD Media Player include:
Full-HD 1080p video playback
Ethernet port for wired or WiFi connection to access files anywhere on the network to play movies, music, and photos from any PC or drive on a home network;
Two USB ports for seamless media playback from multiple USB drives and ability to access them simultaneously
Picture Transfer Protocol support to show photos and movies directly from digital camera or video camera
HDMI 1.3 port, composite video and component video output
SPDIF digital output
The WD TV Live Media Player is available through select distributors and retailers and is covered by a 1-year limited warranty. The MSRP for WD TV Live Media Player is Rs 10,500.
Lockdown or Death for Your FaceBook Profile An Advanced User Guide to Social Networking Privacy
If you’re sick and tired of FaceBook’s continual encroachment on your privacy, here’s how to lock it down like a SuperMax prison or give it the Death Penalty.
I finally decided after all of FaceBook’s continual invasions on my personal privacy by sharing data to people and services which I don’t want — and by being completely irresponsible and untrustworthy in terms of computer security — that it was time to lock down my profile and minimize my exposure, while still allowing select people to interact with me on my user Profile.
With FaceBook, this is a very difficult thing to be able to balance, and I’m still not 100 percent sure that I wouldn’t be served by destroying my profile and leaving the service altogether, but I believe that for the time being, I’ve been able to create some sort of “miserable medium” that I can tolerate.
The User Scenario
FaceBook is an extremely complicated and confusing online service to use, with lots of settings that are needed to secure a profile and prevent undesired dissemination of information. Because I no longer trust the service whatsoever, I’ve created a “How-To” for the advanced user for locking down their profile and minimizing their risk
Keep in mind that this Lockdown I created is an extremely draconian method — nobody will be able to share your information or your statuses, you will not have any personally identifying information unless you absolutely chose to, and only the most essential applications will be authorized.
The user for which I have in mind is someone who is extremely concerned about their personal privacy and security, but also may wish to have people contact them via a brand or a business or some other following they maintain.
In this case I created this “Secure FaceBook Systems Architecture” to suit my own personal needs, in order to be able to interact with essential friends and business contacts in my personal profile, but also to allow anyone to interact with me in relation to my two blogs, Tech Broiler and Off The Broiler.
This requires groups of people to be compartmentalized and thus two separate profiles have to be maintained: Your secure personal profile, and also a Public Fan Page. Additionally, this method also provides the ability for centralized Status Updates to both the personal profile and the Fan Page via Twitter, using automatic RSS synchronization.
For those who do not require that level of complexity and only need to maintain a single profile, you can omit the phases for Twitter/Blog Update integration and Fan Page creation.