Facebook Openness

The exuberance of Facebook is still on,the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 is now valued $10 billion,The thing that is so unique about Facebook is ,contrary to other social media it's Open,Facebook offers an open platform that allows other's to develop applications for Facebook,and now the advent of Facebook Javascript(FBJS) has increased the ease to develop richer interactivity,the leverage the "Openness" has given to Facebook can be construed from the fact that 80% of Facebook users have installed third party application.

The Facebook user base is so huge(42 million active users) that every marketer has an eye on it,when marketers are involved obviously there are going to be some malicious ones too and recent development of Facebook opening up the user profiles for search has increased the concerns for user privacy,here the more serious concern is sexual predators accessing private info,previously a user had a choice to control his privacy information,but now it seems to have changed for worse,yesterday one Lisa Barone has reported the spottyness of Facebook,she reported that people can now ferret user's private information,exasperating this situation for the company,Newyork Attorney General has announced that his office is going to investigate Facebook over the companies negligence in responding to the loop holes.