Facebook launches new reason to stop using Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled the latest reason for users to leave the social networking site, with the launch of a new search facility which allows account holders to conduct free text searches on their âfriends.â Zuckerberg insisted the move was not to place Facebook in direct competition with Google, as unlike the search engine, it would mainly only return self-important proclamations from people with more time on their hands than a Rolex watch model. Speaking at an event at Facebookâs headquarters in California, he told gathered journalists, âSome might argue, there is nothing social about trawling through the finer details of the goings on in the lives of your moronic online friends.â âOthers may suggest that enabling others to search such things as âfriends interested in anal sex in the Australian outbackâ is an infringement, and tantamount to stalking.â âAnd theyâd both be right.â âBut then when have we ever cared about a userâs privacy?â Zuckerberg went on, âConcerns about privacy are for those who donât really have much to shout about.â âA bit like Facebook users, really.â Former Facebook fan, Sheila Mount, said she would be closing her account with immediate effect. âThis is the online equivalent of peeping through the curtain of someoneâs bedroom, and reaching in and grabbing a pair of smalls from the bottom drawer for inspection.â However not all users said the new feature was a bad thing. Â Simon Williams told us, âI can search for all the single friends of my ex-girlfriend within a 10 mile radius.â âRevenge will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine!â