Facebook and the future

Facebook has recently seen a loss in users at least in Briton. This is not to say that the site is losing members quickly as it has grown quite a bit up to this year. But facebook now is becoming the center for something other than just a social networking site it is becoming the test for how far social networking sites can go without upsetting their users. The beacon tool is an excellent example of this. This tool tracked what you bought and then would let your friends know where you purchased the item from as well as what you purchased . Unfortunately people felt that this was too intrusive on their personal lives and after some outcry the program was taken offline. This article talks about another such case where one user had over 5,000 friends but could not have over 5,000 on facebook so he used a tool to transfer his friends onto another program breaking facebook's rules and conditions thus his account was taken down. This user as an "A-list" blogger however so after writing about it there was outcry again. Facebook has certainly become the social network site of choice for a vast majority of people keep watching it in the coming years to be the platform on which social networking boundaries are tested. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually we see a court case where facebook is one of the involved parties.