Facebook - "The ultimate way to control other people's lifes" - M. Zuckerberg

well, it also depends on you , we can see there option like block, report to face book which is the limitation of the users members on it. there is also option in shout out you can choose either post it to public, friends of friends, friends or custom to specific friends and don't show it to...even to photos and personal album and to your personal data there.It's up to you if you will write or not, share it or to choose myself only.So I must say its your option to control your data there and to limit your self or not. but to other's life I od't think so but to influence yes. as long as you share it to public or to that person.

Yes right. But I also agree to Fearlessgara that we can actually : blocking, also option to choose either post it to public, specific friends and don't show it too. even to photos and personal album and to your personal data there.It's up to you if you will write or not, share it or to choose myself only.So its your option to control our secret. To me face book is helpful, I can trace my old friend who was about 30 year separate, and when we met some day, my tears really drop ! thank you face book.

There is no 'magic wand'. It is actually quite normal for sites to 'delete' information when, in fact, the information is still stored on their servers (not to mention the backup tapes which every good system manager makes!) If that were not enough, there are several services which archive web pages - the most famous is the Wayback Machine. Most of them don't archive everything but there is always a chance that someone, somewhere has copied some information which you published and have since deleted. There is no truth in the roumour, by the way, that 'all personal data on Facebook is redirected to a Federal server'. Federal authorities DO have the right to demand that Facebook (and any other site) release information which is relevant to any enquiries but Facebook do NOT pass on personal details without a proper court order and it would be against their Privacy terms to do so. Facebook have two stages involved in 'deleting' accounts. These are well and comprehensively described in the Facebook Help pages. The first one merely disables the account (makes it invisible to anyone at all outside Facebook). Everything can then be retrieved (within a certain time limit) if you decide to reactivate your account. The second stage is to remove all data from their servers and you need to say "Yes, I really want to do this!" several times for it to happen. It does NOT happen instantly because it is a manual process and one also needs to wait until the backup cycle has completed (usually 14 or 30 days, depending on the approach used for server backups) and all records hsve been removed from the backup sequence. Even when Facebook have genuinely removed your information, there is a chance (as I described above) that someone else has copied some of it and that it is still available somewhere (but probably NOT in any kind of official storage syatem!)

I have lost interest in FB. It is kind of hurting when I see scores of likes and comments elsewhere but hardly when I post something truly worthwhile. I have my account there just to stalk others!

First and foremost, i think everyone should already know the risk of information leak when using any social network site. So only those brave enough to take the risk will use real name and real information. For those using real info but blamed the site or system instead when their info was stolen or manipulated, i only have one word to tell them. I***T Well, i'm not a facebook lover myself, i can live easily without logging in for more than a week. I don't even have twitter. So i don't agree with the statement that say facebook can control life. at least not mine.

It is not magic it's science. There is always a way of checking, You think of doing to the best of secrecy, somebody has always the way of counter checking us. If what we had posted and deleted can be revert and recovered, so be it. It is a way of disciplining anybody to be careful of what he was doing.

Just about everyone has at least one facebook account. There are also people having more than one accounts with different user names. I don't see any significant negative effect of facebooking yet.

As long as I know, FB do records anything we do on the Internet. So if you browse in new tab while in another tab you have your FB account logged in, they will record anything you browse. I don't whether you're OK with it or not, but for me, it's truly annoying and violating our privacy.

That's true. But also our e-mails and phone calls remain in some data base that can be used everytime. Facebook it's a more evolved way to control. And also at a visible level. When you apply for a job, the hirer will sure check your profile. The private life it's now, more than ever, involved in the proffesional life. Which I think it's dangerous. We just don't have anymore a place to be who we want, no matter what society sais.

facebook is the best way in the world to connect the people....that is so popular he meet me to my childhood friends this is the best moments of all people life