Wednesday 16 April 2008

Themes / Skins

I have coincidentally got the experiences of changing the themes / skins of my blog as I've found that my first theme is same as the template of one of my blog mates. I do like the colors which show more feminine feeling which are mainly pink and purple colors.

Changing themes is common for bloggers by choosing one free theme to another or develop your own one. I have tried to customize to my first theme, by changing code, but it didn't look good as a result , and thus I could only choose the best one from the templates area.

To design a blog theme, I mainly focus on the colors ,which explains the reason why I have changed the theme. Readability is also important so I want to make it as simple as possible and that does not detract from the visitors to read my blog.

Saturday 12 April 2008

What happens in / behind Facebook?

Do you know what's happened when you join and are addicted on Facebook? After reading the Terms of Use on Facebook, I would like to share my personal feelings here. Indeed, I think many of my classmates have also read about those and felt that we have sold our privacy to them even there is 'privacy' setting .

When people sign up the account, some people will write their personal and professional life on their profiles, and later they will join the 'group' and share their interest, add different applications, update their status every moment or everyday. Do we know that we have already given away or sold our privacy to different organizations indirectly for commercial uses? That maybe one of the secrets / reasons why Facebook get $60 million investment lately from the richest East Asian man, Mr Li in Hong Kong and $240 million investment from Microsoft.

Not only for commercial uses, some investors and venturers of Facebook who are working related to CIA and IAO ( Information Awareness Office) and it seems that our personal information, privacy rights and our behaviour such as internet activity are disclosed to such 'spy' organizations.

I'm here not to ask people to quit Facebook and for sure everyone has own thought. Privacy is the freedom. It is valuable that granted in our lives and we should not give them away!