This morning, I’ve read on Carlos Conde’s website — The Pinoypress — regarding the cancellation of his own Facebook account. I followed the link on his site about the story behind the extremely popular social-networking site. I created my account about three or four months ago after some friends and colleagues encouraged me. They said it’s better than Friendster.

Out of my curiosity, I signed in to Facebook. I found a little amusement on Facebook than Friendster. I also found out that even top photojournalists in the country have their own account in Facebook, too. I know how busy they are but they still have time to tinker on the pages of Facebook. I told myself: ” This could be better than Friendster because these guys have been lured into this site than the latter.” And oh yeah, I found it cool than Friendster.

But I still hardly update my Facebook account. I opted to update my Flickr account than Facebook or Friendster. Aside from the reasons that The Guardian has cited, I find Facebook a little bit annoying because of so many updates coming in. Or it’s just me who doesn’t know how to use it.

But the gist of the story is: it invades your privacy as it collects so much information from the users.

In UK, Facebook Faces Privacy Probe. Read full article here.

But after reading the article on The Guardian, I’m already thinking if I’d cancel my account or not. Maybe I’ll no longer update it.

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