On Facebook Groups at Forbes

See Giovanni Rodriguez at Why Facebook Groups Are Better Than Facebook.

Facebook Going Into News

Facebook is apparently going into NEWS in a big way.

See the report by Jim Edwards at Business Insider

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Facebook Is Now Obsessed With The News Business
— And The News Business Should Be Grateful And Afraid.



News is always a hot topic, as people want to know what is going on.

Whether the mainstream news should worry is doubtful.



There are countervailing influences.

We ourselves use Facebook less and less.



It is simply too invasive, too chatty, and wastes too much of our time on marginal things that do not necessarily improve our life.



Facebook is not on our list of "serious" websites.



It's "historical" value to us has been in finding some long lost contacts and it functions as a kind of blog portal to people who otherwise might not be online or who were not previously interested in blogging.

Fascism in Action: GOP Extremist Conspiracy Changed House Rules to Prohibit House Vote on the Shutdown

Facism in Action and Democracy has been Suspended:

See the House GOP changed rules to prevent vote on shutdown.

The Double Standard in Privacy at Facebook: Minyanville Wall Street Reports

Vincent Trivett has the story at Minyanville Wall Street, and says "goodbye to keeping your name invisible to gawkers".

Read the article at
Mark Zuckerberg Buys His Privacy For $30 Million While Yours Disappears.

Facebook Eliminating Search Opt-Out

Ars Technica reports that Facebook to rip search opt-out from under those who were using it.

New Facebook Privacy Infringements

Here are useful tips for your Facebook Privacy Settings in view of the most recent and continuing Facebook privacy infringements:

See ReadWrite at:

Facebook Just Killed A Privacy Setting, So It's A Good Time To Do Your Own Checkup.

See The Telegraph at:

11 ways to protect your privacy on Facebook
Facebook is making it harder to hide by removing a feature that prevents your profile from appearing on searches. Here we look at how else you can maintain your privacy.

We continue to be amazed that the law has not clamped down heavily on these blatant Facebook privacy infringements, which are being introduced in order for Facebook to make more and more money through advertising by data mining private materials that were never intended for mass public availability.

Deletion of a Facebook Account

How to delete a Facebook account?

We found the requisite link today at our Facebook account site online after resorting to the Facebook "help" menu item and entering "delete account" in the keyword box.