2 posts tagged “facebook”

As many of you may remember last week Toronto is now considered the Facebook capital with nearly half a million users within the city.  I am fairly certain that just means the network and not necessarily all people. Facebook is in the local news again, as City Hall has banned Facebook from city workers while working, following suit with the Ontario provincial government and several local schools. Surprisingly, exempt from these blocks are City councillors, workers of the mayors office and (according to some reports) various services such as the police and fire dept. 

While the surge in numbers has made quite a far reaching impact, the increased censorship of facebook only seems to have been heating up inthe local news. For months now we've been hearing of school children being banned from Facebook by their schools at home or school. Some have even been suspended, one even expelled under cyberbulling allegations.  Of particular interest is that while Facebook is joining the ranks of pornography, gambling, and other redlight sites in many Toronto area cyber-filters; MySpace is considered ok. At the same time, councillors are still treating it as a valid communication medium to reach their constituents.

One might speculate, in the end, that it is this constent attention trying to censor Facebook that is driving up the Toronto community numbers; much like trying to kill the recent AACS hex key was a PR disaster for the HD-DVD crowd. Censorship is obviously not the way to get ideas across, and as long as large bodies try this method as opposed to actually communicating I think we are going to see more backlashes like this.

For any other group who is thinking of totallitarian actions against something they don't like, I leave you with these words from an insightful princess from a long, long time ago ... "The more you tighten your grip, Tarken, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

Technocrati Tags: Facebook, AACS,Toronto, HD-DVD, mafiaa, DRM

techchickblogger made a post recently that raises two interesting questions.

Basic core of the story is Gabrielle was adding friends so fast that Facebook thought she was a bot. My two questions are  ...

1) Is Facebook acknowledging by this that they are using a version of Captcha that is known to have vulnerabilities?
 
2) How exactly does Facebook determine too man? Amber MacArthur and other celebrities are up there and don't get disconnected.

Food for thought.

Technocrati Tags: Facebook, Gabrielle Atticus