Facebook lost users, leaving 6 million

In the U.S. and Canada, Facebook, the prince of social networks, began to falter. In May, the number of users reduced by 6 million people in the United States, from 155,200,000 at the beginning of the month to 1,489,400,000  at the end. And the trend is similar in neighboring Canada, according to Inside Facebook, the specialized blog that follows step by step the social network of Mark Zuckerberg.
Overall, things continue to go well for Facebook, with nearly 700 million users worldwide, while there are more voices than one about a new entry in the stock exchange next year, with an IPO that could generate revenues of up to 100 billion dollars. On Zuckerberg is still pending a large uncertainty, because the action of the rowers, Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, could end up in the coming months in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. As the movie The Social Network tells, the two claim to have been cheated by Zuckerberg who offered them $ 65 million in 2008.
But it's also true that Cameron and Tyler had accepted the sum at the time, only to realize that it was a really low amount of money, just seen the value of Facebook. While Facebook started to hear the first tunes of crisis, social network like Twitter and LinkedIn continue to pull, even in the United States. Twitter, in particular, became number two in the U.S., Britain, Germany, France and Australia. According to industry experts, Facebook is starting to saturate the U.S. market, where opportunities for growth now appear to be very low: for this reason it is suggested to Zuckerberg to turn more and more to European and Asian markets, with ample room for growth potential . Part of the phenomenon of slowing U.S. and Canada, however, is considered seasonal. In early summer many students are erased from the social network, embarrassing to leave no traces on the web (booze and parties, for example), which could compromise the search for a first job. So there are pressures of the parents of underage students, worried about the protection of privacy or for bullying, more and more common in the U.S., linked to social networks. 

Mark Zuckerberg, the hunter

Today I'm not going to speak about Chatroulette or something around it, because I found a very strange news about Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The young businessman  has reportedly taken to eating only meat from animals he has killed, so that he would always remember to be gratefull for everyday food.
Zuckerberger does evey year a "personal challenge: the others were wearing a tie every day and learning Chinese. For next year he would became a hunter.
A Silicon Valley chef, Jesse Cool, who lives not far from Zuckerberg in Palo Alto has introduced him to local farmers and coached him on killing his first chicken, pig, and goat, according to Fortune.

Zuckerberg has shared hischallenge on his Facebook page, and a lot of fans were not happy at all about it.

Planking: life is not a game

As Wikipedia says, ''planking'' is the action of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces and photographing it.

Today I don't want to speak abour Chatroulette, althought my blog is about it, because yesterday something happened and I have started thinking seriously about it. 

Maybe you read the news about the boy died in Australia while doing planking on a rail at 7th floor. He wanted his friend to take a photo but fell down and came crashing to the ground. They wanted to post the photos on Facebook.

I think we can say lots of things about this accident and the phenomenon in general, but the vey point of the question is that on Facebook the page Planking Australia grew to thousend of fans in a few days.

Thinking that there are people who fight against diseases every single minute of their life, who try to survive incidents and problems and seeing there are others who play with their life without any kind of respect and only because they want to be posted on the wall of their friends on Facebook, well, is something I can't stand.