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...founder and Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, Facebook unveiled a polarizing ‘News Feed’ feature that allows users to track their friends’ actions online...
...World Cup final that provoked star French footballer Zinedine Zidane to head-butt him after he grabbed Zidane by the shirt and the Frenchman told him, "If you want, I'll give you the jersey later." "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you." MARK ZUCKERBERG, founder of the networking site Facebook, in response to protests about a new feature that updates users' home pages with fresh information that their friends have posted. Users called it an invasion of privacy. Facebook is "aggressively evaluating" the feature Sources: U.S. Newswire; whitehouse.gov New York Times; Gazzetta dello Sport; Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Facebook?s quick response is the result of a surprising and spontaneous revolt by the site's Gen-Y users. By Friday morning, more than 745,000 users had joined the anti-News Feed group "Students Against Facebook News Feed (Official Student Petition)." A Northwestern University student had created that group only 72 hours earlier. Similarly, a University of Illinois student launched the web site SaveFacebook.com, and University of Florida students were set to boycott Facebook on Sept. 12, before Facebook made its about-face, following a storm of media attention...
...Facebook revolt the sign of growing revolutionary activism among the Internet generation? Not really. Granted, the protests got Facebook to back down: the website modified its News Feed, and students feel that their privacy has been restored. But all the students did was click a button to join an Anti-News Feed group on Facebook or sign the online petition - a protest that took less than a minute. There were no massive demonstrations or a significant boycott. Facebook's membership has continued to increase every day since the News Feed was implemented. And were Facebook itself not the subject...
...Since Tuesday, more than 25 advocacy groups have approached the Anti-News Feed facebook group. Its administrators are considering how it can use its sudden fame to support them. "It's cool that people are taking action and will complain about something," says Brandon Nyman, 21, a co-administrator of the group and a student at Illinois State University. "It's just embarrassing that many people will voice their complaints about Facebook while much greater issues go unsaid...