Recently, Facebook updated its security and privacy settings to provide users with more protection of their data, more customizability in who has access to that data, and generally tighten things up on a whole.

Whether or not this had anything to do with the TOS controversy from last year is another matter.

But ever since then, something has been nagging at me. And it’s not getting any better; in fact, it’s getting worse. And it’s not only me. My girlfriend posted an entry of her own – much more bluntly than I ever could have – highlighting the annoyance.

If we have so much control over our information, why can’t we disable these little blurbs polluting our walls?

All those little "recent activity" blurbs in between posts. Those buggers.

This may sound somewhat pedantic and trite, but here’s the crux of it all: every single little action a user takes – commenting on a photo, “like”-ing someone’s status, or editing their profile – is posted on the wall. Even if I post a link on my cousin’s wall, the friend of mine at Carnegie Mellon who is not friends with my cousin can see this action that I took.

That’s a privacy issue. And it’s not under my control. Which is not cool. Plus, it’s really freaking annoying! I don’t want my Mom to know how much I’m actually on Facebook when I should be getting work done for graduate school!…

And now I’m going to go back to super-duper top-secret project planning. Oh yes indeed.

::Edit:: Facebook recently posted a message on their new security section:

Whether we display a story on your profile is now controlled by the privacy of the content itself, rather than an additional setting. For example, only people who can see both your Wall, and the Wall to which you posted would be able to see a story about you writing on a friend’s Wall. You cannot completely turn off recent activity stories anymore. However, if you want to remove a particular story that currently shows up, simply click the “Remove” button that appears to the right of the story after you move your mouse over it.

So my previous argument about friends-of-friends seeing posts I’ve made on not-mutual friends’ walls doesn’t necessarily stand anymore, provided you have your security set up properly. Still, why they’ve eliminated the ability to turn off “Recent Stories” altogether is entirely beyond me.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore, Facebook is the number one website. In the USA and 20 other countries, it’s number 2. Facebook now has over 300 million users. It’s nearly the third largest market in the world.

I often find people asking me whether I think Facebook is just another flash in the pan. Friendster patented the social networking concept but have largely faded away. Having purchased Myspace for $580 million in 2006, Newscorp investors have already seen huge returns from a $900 million ad deal with Google. MySpace is now fading off to it’s own niche as a platform for music and other performance arts.

Without doubt, Facebook’s strength is in its reliance on the ‘friend network’. We trust our offline friends and contacts. The friend network helps the site to grow and it’s gravity is not stopping with consistent growth outside of North America. Just have a look at the graph from Alexa.

MySpace is the red line headed south to join Friendster, Bebo and Orkut.

The scale and reach of Facebook blew my mind the first time I typed ‘facebook.com’ into Alexa.com. Nearly 29% of all Internet traffic goes to Facebook. That grew at 25% last QUARTER!

From Facebook’s developer roadmap that the company plans to implement in Q2 2010:

“The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.”

Facebook is positioning itself to become the center of the individual’s (online) universe – if it’s not already. At least for the foreseeable future, it looks like Facebook is here to stay.

aw punya beberapa script keren yang aw pake di 1st fs ma 2nd fs

pake jurus copy paste aja kode2 nya langsung di kotak media fs kamu

LIHAT CONTOHNYA

1. my favo image hover :

<style>img { filter: Alpha(Opacity=100,  FinishOpacity=0,  Style=2,  StartX=20,  StartY=40,  FinishX=0,  FinishY=0); }a:link img { filter: Alpha(Opacity=100,  FinishOpacity=0,  Style=2,  StartX=20,  StartY=40,  FinishX=0,  FinishY=0); }a:hover img { filter: none; }table td div div font {;}</style>

2. my favo welcome alert :

<STYLE>
body {
height:expr/**/ession(
function welcome()
{alert(‘haI ‘+parent.pageViewerFName+’ !! Yang kamu butuhkan tuk buka fs ni adalah: BERIMAN, KONEKSI 2048kbps, buka pake internet explorer,no right click, kencangkan sabuk pengaman!!!!!!’);}
window.onload=welcome);
}
</STYLE>
* ganti kata2nya aja, sesuaikan dengan apa yang u butuhkan

3. my favo goodby alert

<STYLE>
body{left:expression(
function goodbye()
{alert(‘mO KmaNa ‘+pageViewerFName+’! SEE U NEXT TIME!!!’);}
window.onunload=goodbye);}
</STYLE>

* Ganti jg kata2 na, IE ONLY

4. my favo no-right-click mode

<STYLE> body {right:expr/**/ession(function ephemeralshake(){if (event.button==2){
self.resizeTo(1024,768)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(24,16)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(24,16)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(24,16)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(24,16)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(24,16)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(24,16)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(15,17)
self.moveBy(-13,-17)
self.moveBy(13,19)
self.moveBy(-14,-16)
self.moveBy(14,23)
self.moveBy(-25,-20)
self.moveBy(24,22)
self.moveBy(-20,-17)
self.moveBy(-13,-20)
self.moveBy(20,20)
self.moveBy(-26,-27)
self.moveBy(28,17)
self.moveBy(0, 0)
alert(“hayooooooo……mO NgaPaIn seEh!!”);}}
document.onmousedown=ephemeralshake);} </STYLE>

5. my favo transparent shootout

<STYLE>
.controlpanel .so { margin: 0 -20px 10px 0; width: 257px; position: relative; background:url() repeat-y top left; color: #ce4424; font-weight: bold; }
.controlpanel .so a { color: #ce4424; }
.controlpanel .so div#cpShoutoutBox, .controlpanel .so div#cpShoutoutEditBox { padding: 7px 7px 5px 7px; margin: 0; }
.controlpanel .so div#cpShoutoutEditBox { display: none; }
.controlpanel .sol { position: absolute; left: -5px; top: 8px; width: 6px; height: 11px; background:url() no-repeat; }
.controlpanel .sob { width: 257px; height: 2px; background:url() no-repeat; line-height: 0; font-size: 0; }
</STYLE>

6. my favo page title

<STYLE>
body{top:expr/**/ession(fstweakerspagetitle()
function fstweakerspagetitle(){
document.title = ‘Hi…. gmn kbr u hari ni. ad my 2nd fs yapzz coz yang ni dah full ampe tumpah2x’;
});}
</STYLE>

kode lainnya terdapat di blog aw yang lain

thanks b4

the secret that was long buried in my chest was just about to be busted today. in fact, until someone talks to me about it, i cannot be very sure that the storm is over.

without me spilling the beans over here (about the secret of course), lemme give you a few details of what happened.

kuldeep, my friend called me in the evening yesterday.

“are you set to lose the little good reputation you have?”, he said

“what?” i was surprised at his behaviour

“why you exchanging notes with this bansal guy on orkut”

“not i. it is he who pings me once in a blue moon. what’s bad with it”

“you know, he is part of one of those communities. remove him fast from your friends network. also change your settings for receiving scraps.”

“and do it now”

it was already ten in the night. still out of curiousity i logged on to orkut to have a look at this guy’s profile.

actually he had those communities on display in his profile that kuldeep and me wud dread to sport. in fact we have together pledged to forever shun that community, although my personal experience on the pledge hasn’t been satisfactory.

and i least knew he was a member of those communities. the time i last checked his profile, he seemed new to orkut. he was just like any other ordinary boy to talk to.

his profile sure had those dreaded communities on display. thank god he wasn’t on my friends’ network. i immediately deleted his scrap and changed the scrap settings and went for a good sleep.

on work today, i got little time to check my mails. when i checked it at around 5 in the evening, there was this kuldeep’s mail saying that he has removed me from his friends’ network. “remove that idiot from your orkut first”.

“hey i have already done that. why you acting so hyper on this”, i replied back.

but when i saw the first entry on my scrapbook, i couldn’t help getting hyper either. the idiot had spilled the beans all over on orkut and for all to see. i felt like crying. god knows who all must have seen the scrap. he really was such an idiot for not understanding that this is my public profile.

in a fit i deleted all my scraps from the time i first joined on orkut.