Until last year, i did not know much about you, I knew of facebook being popular but never bothered much to know about its backend. Last year when I first heard of an upcoming movie the social network, i simply thought of it as just another movie where people would be making love over some social network (probably facebook).
Time passed and I got to know about it a bit looking the trailers and all and as i looked onto the movie, the movie became one of my most favorite and Mark you became a household brand probably. People were talking much more about you than any other hero of your category and even better, many wont talk of Steve jobs, Bill gates or Larry Page (the google guy) as much as they talked of you. You know that, especially with Mr Obama invited you. You reached a peak at one point of time.
But eventually the worse has happened over now, facebook perhaps has been unable to take over the celebrity status you all got. But that eventually is not entirely your mistake. Wikipedia suggests that your stake in the company is only at 24%, seems, most partners donot listen to you and are making money just by putting your name ahead. Off late,most of your so called facebook’s customers are unhappy and usually complaining about facebook’s privacy concerns.
You have been rapidly changing your privacy policy which seems to be longer that the Constitution of the United States of America, WTH do you suppose that we will and read that the whole day long. A large number of scams of phishing attacks on fb users have been reported, you know that don’t you? Over the years facebook has been leaking information about its users to third party companies, changing its recommended settings to worse and worst. And unlike twitter you don’t bother to inform your customers, which even makes that worse.
To be honest, most people (including me no longer find facebook intresting, the way it used to appeal to me is no more Seems some day I along with many others will discontinue (or deactivate) my facebook account on the lines of millions of others who have already done so. You are lucky that till no other site has started doing to you what you did to orkut. But it wont take much time for all those guys (yeah not girls) sitting in Harvard or Standford or aka NSIT or the less famous IITs (oops) to replace your so popular site.
On an ending note I sincerely hope you will try and understand and also think of better method to overcome the problems faced by your users and at the same time, think of better methods to safeguard the customer privacy and ensure that you keep earning and remain a household brand i talked about.
Yours sincerely
Facebook User
