Facebook will end on March 15, 2011 - true or not?

An article is circulating in social networking sites and e-mail that Facebook will be ending on March 15, 2011. The "Facebook end issue" was written by J.B. Smitts on January 8, 2011 in the weeklyworldnews website saying that Mark Zuckerberg wants to shut down Facebook.com on March because he wants his simple life back.

Excerpt from the article:

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

Some Facebook users were affected by the circulating article, but it is not true -- according to local and international reports, WeeklyWorldNews actually contains satirical and exaggerated news. According to wikipedia, the Weekly World news is a supermarket tabloid which is popular for its outlandish, supernatural and paranormal approach to news.

Facebook.com is not yet releasing any statement regarding the issue.

Ten (10) Signs of Facebook and Twitter Addiction

A new study from Retrevo Gadgetology suggests that more people are becoming obsessed with their online social circles most likely Twitter or Facebook.

Consider these stats from the survey:

* 48% of people check/update Facebook and/or Twitter after they go to bed.
* 55% of people over 25 have to check in on Facebook at least once a day.
* 49% of people under 25 years old can be interrupted by an electronic message during a meal. (27% for people over 25 years of age).

Still undecided if you're addicted? Here are a 7 additional signs that will check if you are Facebook or Twitter Addict.

1. You speak your sentences in 100 words or less.
2. You randomly poke coworkers on your way to the restroom.
3. A coworker asks: "How was your weekend?" Your first thought: "Gosh, I don't update facebook album or twitter post.
4. Your LinkedIn profile accomplishments include: "Successfully promoted to level 932 of Mafia Wars," and "Followed 9,932 Twitter accounts in a 24-hour period with a 92% success rate in follow-backs."
5. You judge your self-worth on how often you're retweeted.
6. You frantically hit refresh of your facebook feeds 189 times before it reloads successfully. Phew!
7. Ding! You receive a text message. Is it from a friend? "Wally commented on your status."

Now, Can you categorize yourself as a social networking addict?

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The Top 10 All-time Best Free Downloads and Services

The Top 10 All-time Best Free Downloads and Services according to PCWorld   

1. Audacity: An open source program that can record and edit sound.
2. Ad-Aware Free: An excellent utility that can destroy spywares.
3. BitTorrent: A tool for downloading games, movies, software and music and lets you pause or resume downloads, and change the queue in any ways. 
4. Dropbox: This gives you access to free 2GB of online storage space, and offers dead-simple file syncing among any number of PCs and the Web.
5. Evite: this site offers free creation of e-mail party which invites and easily track RSVPs online.
6. FreeConference.com: This makes unlimited free conference calls with this service.
7. IMDb: This gives a free updated movie database. 
8. OpenOffice.org: A full-featured, downloadable Microsoft Office competitor gives you a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a database, and a drawing application.
9. The GIMP: In this image editor, you'll find many of the same services of photo tools available in adobe Photoshop, including filters, effects, masks, and layers.
10. Trillian Basic: From a free single interface, you can use the services of the many popular instant messengers, such as AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger.

"Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled."

"Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled."


As a am searching for my College friends who might signed up already in twitter, i came up to discovering this message, that it is a little bit stress. What might be the reasons?

a. Twitter as of the moment is experiencing a bulk of users trying to find people who already joined.
b. Twitter is currently responding to millions of posts per second being sent through their social networking site.
c. Twitter might have an online maintenance and temporarily disabled the feature.

Twitter users creating 50 million 'tweets' per day

The micro-blogging service said that twitter are creating 50 million tweets per day composing of 140 characters or less. A member of Twitter Analytics team, Kevin Weil said in his blog post that twitter users are writing 5,000 tweets per day in 2007, 300, 000 tweets per day in 2008, 2.5 million in 2009 and now is 50 million tweets.


In short, tweets in twitter is approximately 600 tweets per second as of the day. Spam are not included here. The number of actual tweets is far higher because many messages are being delivered from multiple accounts, According to Weil.

Errors of Google Buzz

Google Buzz was released just this February but in split seconds, it accommodates millions of users, buzzers, buzz, posts and photos from different parts of the world.

Few members of google buzz have already seen its flaws in terms of performance and posting buzz/contents. Once you have reached 500 followers, the news feed is starting to crawl. When you followed a user, there is no notification that you followed him/her, when you follow again, the same button is appearing, FOLLOW. Good to note that just today, they have fixed this Error and the user can now distinguish if he/she already followed the Buzz user.

Taken from alxjm.com, it is true that there are lots of nude pictures being posted by buzzers, and Google should take an immediate action on these. Removing post is not enough, a stricter rule is necessitated.

Google Buzz Limitations

Google buzz has no limits in following buzzers, no limits in the number and type of post as well as the languages of the buzzers. I am from the Philippines and I am seeing the differences of this to other social networking sites. All members are participative, everyone can share their thoughts and you are not limited to anything as of the day.

Just an advice to all users of Google Buzz, follow and follow because later on, Google buzz will soon be adding new features, and who knows? They might think that the solution for logging is to establish boundaries and restrictions.

It is enjoyable to use this social networking site and it’s recommendable at some point. Besides, Google had already established its name for number of years.

To tell you how many people are already connected to buzz, it has tens of millions already, creating millions of posts and comments. “Given that Google is giving Buzz a prominent spot in the Gmail interface, this doesn’t come as a surprise, but it also shows buzz potential as a mainstream geo social network” (cited from readwriteweb.com)

It is not official, these errors are just some of my observations based on almost 2 weeks of joining. At the end, the choice still lies in your hands, to add more friends or just get connected with those who you know.