Stop the world - Anonymous to kill Facebook on 05 Nov 2011!!!!

[INDRANIL]

The self-proclaimed ethereal hacktivist collective known as Anonymous - or, more accurately, someone with a computer, an internet connection, a basic video editor and a voice synthesiser - has decided that Facebook should die.

In a burst of oratory which would do any repressive dictator in any book-burning tyranny proud, the disembodied voice says:

If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy.

The voice continues, warning you that:

Facebook knows more about you than your family.

For some Facebook users, that might well be true. But that's not exactly Facebook's fault. And it's not inevitably the chilling thing the inhumanly-voiced commentator implies.

Firstly, Facebook only "knows" what you choose to tell it. If you want to tell Facebook more than you tell your parents, or your spouse, or your third cousin twice removed, then that should be your choice. And it should be your right. At least, your choice and right in any jurisdiction in which there is at least some personal freedom.

Secondly, what about the many people who have no or little family? If you're an orphan, for example, or if you're estranged from your family, does that disqualify you from using social networks because you don't have a family who could possibly know more about you than your chosen friends?

Thirdly, what about the many lonely, disaffected or socially unadept people whose lives have been transformed for the better by services like Facebook? You can disagree with Facebook's approach, and its underlying attitudes - as Naked Security sometimes pointedly does - but to aim to kill it off entirely to suit your own agenda is arrogant self-righteouness at best.

Interestingly, the synthetic voice has what might best be described as a Western Mid Atlantic Ocean accent - a mostly North American inflection but with a nod to UK Received Pronunciation.
There's further evidence of Anglophilia in the date chosen.

05 November 1605 was the date Guy Fawkes was arrested in a cellar under the British parliament, in the company of a vast stash of gunpowder, a timepiece, an implement for lighting the fuse, and the intention to cause murder and mayhem on an enormous scale.

So there you have it.

Hmm funny scarry finger crossed . Let's wait and see. Have a nice day .

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[Bearcat]

Oh no! They're going to kill Facebook now! Civilization as we know it, will simply cease to exist!

[INDRANIL]

Don't worry mate . I'm sure this will screw Mark Zuckerbergs sleep .

[hellnoire]

I've been trying to convert a few people to Google+ but they aren't going without their Farmville and their Island Nation and Mob Wars and..

[Bearcat]

I'm sure this will screw Mark Zuckerbergs sleep .

Good one Indra! I needed a good laugh!

[Raymond]

I've been trying to convert a few people to Google+ but they aren't going without their Farmville and their Island Nation and Mob Wars and..

That's true. Google+ needs something to attract the users or else people will be comfortable staying with Facebook.

[INDRANIL]

Hmm probably some games .

[Raymond]

Some "addictive" games to be precise

[INDRANIL]

Good news . Games in Google+ .

[Raymond]

Yeah they definitely needed that to compete with Facebook.