Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated. There have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is that there are too many non-active Facebook members, and on the other side, too many new Facebook members. We will be sending this message around to see if the members are active or not. If you are active please send to other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active. Those users who do not send this message within 2 weeks will be deleted without hesitation to create more space. If Facebook is still overpopulated we will kindly ask for donations; until then send this message to all of your friends and make sure you send this message to show me you are active and not get deleted. Also, do not send back to the person who sent it to you.

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder of Facebook

The authors of this Hoax do have some humour…

Anyway, in order to make that a worthwhile exercise I will try to document what happens. So here we go, the first three things that are actually rather useful:

1. I can finally start to remember the names of people in my college.

2. I could check photos from Keble Ball.

3. I start to find out what people my friends know that I do know as well – a whole lot of new connections.

So, but in order not to make that a total defeat: The privacy issues with facebook are simply frightening. Okay, news feeds aside, do you really want to give facebook a blanket license to use your personal information for other applications? Anyway, three days from now I will probably even consider paying money for someone to use it …