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Basically, everyone is hating or not happy about Facebook's continued obsession for traffic by trying to be like Twitter instead of being the separate entity that it is suppose to be . Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. It's a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian. The company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from "old settings" to becoming visible to "everyone." This is not what Facebook users signed up for. It's not about privacy at all, it's about increasing traffic and the visibility of activity on the site. And : “The Facebook privacy transition tool is clearly designed to push users to share much more of their Facebook info with everyone, a worrisome developmen...

Any............thing. It's official: Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network," a film based on the creation of the social networking site. But he's not the only rumored name now confirmed to be in the film. Variety reports that Justin Timberlake will also star in the flick alongside Eisenberg. Timberlake will play Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who became Facebook's founding president. Andrew Garfield has been cast as Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who had a falling out with Zuckerberg as the site became a financial success. The crew, along with director David Fincher, will begin filming next month in Boston before moving production to Los Angeles. Biz Stone might as well get ready to make his Twitter film soon. And while we're at it, let's just give Mashable their movie as well, since they report on all of these things from social media all the time.

Pathetic once again from Zuckerberg and crew One of Twitter’s strongest features is the @reply, where you can direct a message to someone else on Twitter by typing @ and then their username. Facebook, which is trying to emulate some of Twitter’s best features, doesn’t have anything similar in the News Feed. In short, it’s not easy to have a public conversation. Very soon, that will no longer be the case. Facebook just introduced the ability to tag your friends in status updates. What makes this really interesting though is how you tag people: Using the @ symbol. Facebook has just turned on their own version of Twitter’s @Mentions feature that will be rolled out over the next few weeks. And oh boy...it now works The @ symbol now works just like Twitter, and not just for users, but for groups and fan pages as well. Facebook has just stepped deep into Twitter’s territory. How long until you can see your @reply history? We’re betting not very long at all. They might as well call themselv...