This really doesn't come as a surprise ...

... if you're on Facebook, you cannot block the founder Mark Zuckerberg. Though I doubt he'll spend all his free time looking at my page, it is something people should consider carefully. While it doesn't appear to be the case that anyone else is blockable yet, the time may come when someone figures out how to do it and pilfers people's private information.

Probably not hugely newsworthy, but yet another reminder to keep the information on Facebook to a minimum.

See! I told you Facebook is not good for you ...

Use Facebook, Get Syphilis.

Professor Peter Kelly, director of Public Health for NHS Tees, said: "There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected."

He said staff had found a link to social networking sites among those infected.

Prof Kelly said: "I don't get the names of people affected, just figures. And I saw that several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites.

"Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms."

I do not Facebook ...

... but if I did, I would follow this advice.

Facebook

Recently, I've had a few friends, and a few more acquaintances, hit me up as friends on Facebook. Problem is, I don't have a Facebook page ... and I didn't plan on ever getting one either. So, does Facebook actually keep track of these requests, so if I ever on a whim decided to get a Facebook page 10 years down the road ... I'd start out with a bevy of friends?

It's odd. I also don't know why, all of a sudden, I'm such a popular fellow. All of these individuals are people I knew back in my college days, so maybe something is going on that I'm not aware of ... though why none of them have bothered to contact me directly, is beyond me.

I'm not a big fan of Facebook ...

... and this won't help things at all. From their TOS:

"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof."

Bold emphasis mine. Of course, I really haven't looked at the Blogger and Google TOS lately either.