Facebook, Twitter- the most popular social networking sites that are regularly visited by millions of people worldwide, had failed to make it to the top 50 websites , according to a survey conducted by TIME magazine this year 2009.
One noticeable feature that emerged is that the online sharing community , whether be it videos, photographs, music , image , is gradually gaining grounds. While Twitter and Facebook ranked 6th and 31st respectively the sites like Flickr( 1st), California Coastline (2nd), You Tube (12th), Hulu ( 14th), Vimeo ( 15th), Fora Tv ( 16th), caught the attention of the surfers.
This fall in popularity or one might say decline in interest can be attributed to the often accusations against Facebook and Twitter. Recently a Georgian blogger with the account name Cyxymu, was targeted in a denial of service attack , that led to the sitewide outrage twitter and problems at the other sites as well. Twitter was down for several hours and it suffered periodic slowness and time outs throughout the day. Well it is for sure that such coordinated efforts by hijackers required thousands of computers , which together formed a botnet.
Again on 3rd June 2008, Canada , the third largest user base of Facebook after US and UK, the legal professionals lodged a complaint against Facebook accusing it of violating 22 separate private policies. According to the CIPPIC ( Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic ) based at the University of Ottawa , it violated the PIPEDA act ( Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act). Complaints such as targeted advertisements, passing on personal information of the users to the third party for advertising and profit-making business without the concerned persons permission, were levelled against it.
On 19th august 2009, 5 Californian residents filed lawsuit against Facebook for violating privacy. Iran had blocked Facebook accusing it of influencing Iranian elections, wherein the supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi , started DDOS ( Distributed Denial of Service) on the day of the elections, organized attacks against the President, Ahmadinezad’s site and exchanged attack tools through Facebook and Twitter.
Whatever the reason might be, the crux is that the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have to be more vigilant in restricting the mal uses of this socially beneficial sites.
One noticeable feature that emerged is that the online sharing community , whether be it videos, photographs, music , image , is gradually gaining grounds. While Twitter and Facebook ranked 6th and 31st respectively the sites like Flickr( 1st), California Coastline (2nd), You Tube (12th), Hulu ( 14th), Vimeo ( 15th), Fora Tv ( 16th), caught the attention of the surfers.
This fall in popularity or one might say decline in interest can be attributed to the often accusations against Facebook and Twitter. Recently a Georgian blogger with the account name Cyxymu, was targeted in a denial of service attack , that led to the sitewide outrage twitter and problems at the other sites as well. Twitter was down for several hours and it suffered periodic slowness and time outs throughout the day. Well it is for sure that such coordinated efforts by hijackers required thousands of computers , which together formed a botnet.
Again on 3rd June 2008, Canada , the third largest user base of Facebook after US and UK, the legal professionals lodged a complaint against Facebook accusing it of violating 22 separate private policies. According to the CIPPIC ( Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic ) based at the University of Ottawa , it violated the PIPEDA act ( Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act). Complaints such as targeted advertisements, passing on personal information of the users to the third party for advertising and profit-making business without the concerned persons permission, were levelled against it.
On 19th august 2009, 5 Californian residents filed lawsuit against Facebook for violating privacy. Iran had blocked Facebook accusing it of influencing Iranian elections, wherein the supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi , started DDOS ( Distributed Denial of Service) on the day of the elections, organized attacks against the President, Ahmadinezad’s site and exchanged attack tools through Facebook and Twitter.
Whatever the reason might be, the crux is that the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have to be more vigilant in restricting the mal uses of this socially beneficial sites.
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