The World's Biggest 6 Year Old

Well Happy Birthday Facebook, you're 6 years old and apparently if you were a country you would be the third largest after China and India. That means that there are 375,000,000 worldwide members out there, ready and willing to stalk whenever they feel the urge.  Sound insane to you? I won't lie the statistic completely freaks me out. If I were a current Facebook member I would be thinking twice right about now. In fact Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook even states that Facebook has spiraled out of control.

Another fun fact from the video was the statistic about Farmville.  Does anyone find something wrong with the fact that there are 76 million people who tend to their farms on Farmville on Facebook while there are only 2 million farms in the US?  Two words, not OK.  Don't even get me started with the new game, Fishville.  My brother's girlfriend told me that she loves the game because she gets to feed her own fish. Bridge, you know I love you, but there has to be a better way.  In fact, I'm getting you your own fishbowl!

The privacy issue is the one that really gets me.  People lose jobs, they lose friends, they lose lovers, all over things seen on Facebook.  Yes, of course you can untag photos, you can delete comments written on your wall, and you can block certain people whom you think shouldn't see you riding the bull in a bar in the East Village.  But, at the end of the day, the only way to really ensure privacy is abstain from Facbeook.  Our high school health teachers did always preach abstinence, although, it was regarding something else, they may have been on to something.