Facebook is "ok" for security, but its let down by people still having open and free to look at accounts. They should really lock everyone's down so only friends can see it!

always useful in life when you want to keep in contact with people. great service. wish they would stop changing the layout though. harder to understand sometimes.lol

We all know that facebook has become a part of our lives. But the privacy settings of facebook have been completely disturbed. They should take care of these. Rest is all good on it The Wall, Bio, Photos etc etc

I love Facebook so so do I only give it three stars? A number of reasons. 1 Without Members, Facebook would not exist. Yet they treat members with contempt. Their system prompts me to add new suggested users but when I do, they stop me by saying I don't know them. In some cases, this happens despite me having 7 or 8 mutual friends with that person. 2 One of my friends sent a "friend request" to someone she thought she knew. That person reported her and my friend was banned for a week from making any friend requests. No chance to explain or anything, just treated her with contempt. 3 Worst of all, there are many business pages who use Facebook to gain new customers and then scam them. These sites use images that breach copyright and they block anybody who posts a negative comment or asks a question they don't like. While we can be blocked and scammed by these businesses, there is no way on Facebook for us to report these companies who abuse Facebook. So Facebook has become a tool for these businesses to cheat people and we have no voice. Facebook is great and I love it but they need to remember that it would be nothing without it's members.

Facebook is a decent Community networking site, and fun for keeping up with the lastest goss with friends & family only thing or draw back I would keep real personal censored stuff well away from FB as I think it is a bit public regarding the information, but say for simple chit chat I would say great I guess.

Never been a fan of facebook

I have to say that I was a late starter with Facebook and did wonder what all the fuss was about so missed the initial buzz when everyone clammered to sign up for their profiles. However, after being persauded it was great and that I should join the masses and was shown that I could lock down my profile so not all could find me, I have been quite happily messaging and poking people for about six months. I have to say it is a great tool but as with all things, the novelty does wear off and I have found myself logging on less and less as time has gone by.

I started looking at facebook as part of a uni thesis on the effects of social networking sites on society such as www.facebook.com My study led me to look at a number of other sites, including MySpace, Bebo, faceparty and the very new facemass.co.uk.

Social networking is on the up and we seem to spend more and more time online, reading about other people - and perhaps more importantly, telling other people about us - something that facemass.co.uk is looking to capitalise on.

facebook's greatest asset is its size and its ability to offer great flexibility through applications designed by non-facebook employees. The flip side of this, however is its ability to become very complicated very quickly. Ask an over 50 non-web savy user to find something on the internet and they will probably succeed using a simple search engine such as google. Ask them to begin using facebook and they will probably be scared off by its sheer enormity and complication. MySpace lost out to facebook partly because it allowed users to fully customise their MySpace profile - great on the face of it until you struggle reading anything amidst the patterns and colours splashed boldly and LOUDLY across your page. facebook avoided this but I do think it is danger of going the same way as MySpace - becoming over complicated and scaring many people off.

Further bad points such as making it difficult to cancel your account (Is that not illegal?), showing off your date of birth (as well as other security issues) and eating into every minute of every waking day makes facebook a 'dangerous' game.

New sites will always try to close the gaps in the market and facemass.co.uk is no different. Very new (there's only about 5 faces on there at the moment), facemass tries to be a simple facebook. Will it succeed? Maybe, like facebook, it will become a victim of its own success.