Happy New Year to all of you!

No, this is not a hack or a mass message spread by Facebook. These are my own wishes for you from the bottom of the heart. I wish you that you never get bombarded with spams and hacks.

On the very first day of this year, I got greeted by a message from Facebook:

"hey there I was just talking to Aditya and they asked me to show you this AmericanBizNews . org"

Soon, I knew it was some kind of virus or FB hack that is mas contacting FB members. However, I did not care much about it. I never knew anyone named Aditya in my whole life.

To my surprise, I had better greetings waiting in my INBOX this morning when I woke up. These were sort of "angered" messages from my own friends who had received a similar message. This time it was from me - I mean someone acting like me. You know what I mean.

As the FB is growing larger than image, it has been loosing control over everything. A few weeks ago, I had blogged about how CPU consuming their service had become - fortunately they fixed it. And now, it is the hackers abusing the loop holes in the FB APIs. I wish, in this new year (not new decade), FB would take controls of their activities and fix the problems they have been letting others create for them.

Sometimes, I wonder if this is the beginning of Social Media Viruses.I wonder is should I still be moving my contents and my applications to the CLOUD. In my humble opinion, cloud isn't safe as of today. Yes, it can me made safe, but that would add its cost and time.

This also reminds me that I should stay with safe harbors like Solaris and Linux which are rarely affected by such viruses. Also, I think, it is time for private social media rather than open social media.

Happy Safe Surfing!