Netizens skeptical over Facebook's new measures
By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on September 29, 2011: Source: http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/Netizens-skeptical-over-Facebooks-new-measures/318505.html CHENNAI: While the new privacy measures introduced by the popular social networking site Facebook since last week have been welcomed by its millions of users across the globe, t he action has kicked off a debate among its users in online forums who see it as a step to force them to use Facebook emails in the future to remain on website. As part of its new privacy measures announced during the ‘Facebook f8 Conference’ in San Francisco, Facebook has stopped sending all types of alerts to mailboxes of its users. Previously, FB users received several alerts pertaining to new friend requests and follow-up comments everyday into their mailboxes (gmail, yahoomail, hotmail, rediffmail and so on). Though these alerts have helped the non-regular FB users to track happenings around them on the social...