I’ve never tried to hide my disdain for facebook and everything it represents. If it were up to me, I’d get stuck in a lift with Mark Zuckerberg and proceed to continuosly slap him until I felt that every hour wasted on his site were somehow redeemed. However, please allow me the one to point out my own hypocrisy, because I am fully aware that I can delete my Facebook profile. However, it’s not that easy. Yes, I realize I don’t need it to live, and probably won’t have any withdrawl symptoms but, with facebook becoming such a large part of our lives, one would be seriously socially stinted unless they too were browsing that pretentious blue site on a daily basis. The fact is, until people find a suitible alternative, removing yourself from the social networking site would be sacrificial. As much as I sing the prase of Twitter or Buzz, the truth is, people don’t want to go through the learning curve needed to enjoy them to their fullest. We are quite simply stuck.

But Facebook is not all powerful. It isn’t some sort of immortal deity who we have to adore, and it is quite recent that I discovered that it’s foundations are getting attacked from no other than the PC World website. I must make one thing perfectly clear here, these opinions are not from representatives of PC World, however from a group of tech savvy individuals who post on PCW’s website.

Here are some samples:

Privacy controls that don’t work, rampant phishing attacks, and the ability to hack live chats — can’t Facebook do anything right?

Dan Tynan , ITworld.

Calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts are gathering momentum. Critics cite privacy concerns and plummeting trust in the company and its leader, Mark Zuckerberg.

Richi Jennings , Computerworld

Facebook Users Ho-Hum Over Privacy Issues, Exec Says

Sharon Gaudin , Computerworld

If you are interested in your privacy then please go ahead and read these mentioned blogs, and there are lots more where they came from. Interestingly, all the posts I read were written in the past week, so something must have shifted in the wrong direction for Facebook quite recently.

All in all, remember that privacy is a personal thing. If you have a company that restricts you from arranging that privacy to your hearts desire, then maybe it’s time to realize that, although Facebook started out as a public service to keep in touch with your loved ones, it has now become a booming enterprise that uses our information as the fuel to keep the engine running.

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Barfly.