End of Facebook on March 15th?

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.

“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back after Facebook goes out of business.”

Instant Personalization on FaceBook

I saw this today on a friend´s status message

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As of today, a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Enable." 

Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Applications and Websites>Instant Personalization>

At bottom of page Edit Settings, and un-check "Enable". 

Just so you know, if your friends don't do this, they will be sharing information about you.

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I checked my FB privacy settings and it was not automatically enabled.

So, this goes out to all the people who will panic --- I suspect there is anything to panic. Enable it if you are cool about Instant Personalization. Otherwise, do nothing!