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German Minister writes an open letter to Facebook founder

German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has written an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, expressing her concerns about Facebook’s plans to further relax data protection regulations on the social networking site. “Should Facebook not be willing to alter its business policy and eliminate the glaring shortcomings, I will feel obliged to terminate my membership,” writes Aigner, acknowledging thus the low level of influence of political leaders to impose their point of view to American editors.

Facebook blocked in Vietnam?

According to the "New Jersey Newsroom", Internet users in Vietnam are worried that government restrictions on access to this popular social networking site could soon evolve into a total blackout, assuming it isn't so yet. Since early november, access to Facebook has been intermittently inaccessible in communist Vietnam, but the government has publicly denied responsibility.

Workers at some companies such as Vietnam Post and Telecommunications and FPT Telecom admitted to the foreign media that they had been ordered by government officials to block Facebook, which has one million Vietnamese users (over 86 million inhabitants in Vietnam).

Workers at some companies such as Vietnam Post and Telecommunications and FPT Telecom admitted to the foreign media that they had been ordered by government officials to block Facebook, which has one million Vietnamese users.

Why Generations Y and Z will change politics

Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation, describes the demographic cohort following Generation X. Its members are often referred to as Millennials or Echo Boomers. As there are no precise dates for when the Millennial generation starts and ends, commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the 1980s to the late 1990s. They are subject of sociological reports.  They have a very different social behavior of their elders? as spoiled children who demand the best salary conditions and the best time to work. This philosophy is very different from that of baby boomers makes it the "Y" unmanageable? And what will happens with the next generation, also known as Generation Z, net-generation, or digital natives.

To understand the question, the prestigious U.S. bank Morgan Stanley did not hesitate to ask one of his trainees, a British teenager of 15 years, to write a report on patterns of media consumption of his generation. Sufficiently eloquent to be published in the "Financial Times". For its part, PricewaterhouseCoopers interviewed young Swedish via Internet and Facebook. A report entitled "e-revolution".

What can we take out? That we may be the most innovative generation with us. And that collaborative and participatory are not just words ...

A Sarkozy new look on Facebook

Shirt without tie and wide smile, the new portrait of President Sarkozy on Facebook is deliberately cool and relaxed. According to Franck Louvrier, the President's adviser, we have "to adapt the page to the support". Besides official news, we learn that the President's favorite book is "Red and Black" by Stendhal. To celebrate this new version of the official page of the President, the Elysée publish a video filmed by the weekly magazine "Femme Actuelle" during an interview with Carla Bruni Sarkozy in the Elysee salons.

When a French Minister announces pregnancy on Facebook

For the first time, reacting to rumors began to circulate, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, France's minister for the digital economy has confirmed her pregnancy via Facebook. "They call me to talk to me a picture, she write. Indeed, some Facebook friends spoken too. Well, I do not know how the photographer has managed, I thought the jacket covering more than that, but it is true that it is quite telling, that photo. "So, it's true, I'm pregnant," wrote the 35-year-old minister on her Facebook profile. "My husband and I are very happy. I will give birth this summer".

It is not so easy for politicians to use Facebook

The social network Facebook is growing very quicky. Approximately 7 million French (almost 20% of Internet users in France) are registered according to Marketing 2.0 and Sociabliz Demographer. But we are more than 150 million worldwide, including 45 million in the USA, to share on Facebook. No wonder that politicians are increasingly likely to join. But, according to a recent article in The New York Times, it takes time to learn and adapt to be truly effective. If, for example, most political operations know it’s not O.K. to phone people during dinner, the rules for online engagement are yet to be established.

Egypt's Facebook Revolution

According to PoliticsOnline, young Egyptians are flocking to Facebook to mobilize and vent their frustrations with the Gaza-Israeli conflict. This showing of "Facebook Activism" can be expected to occur with a government that limits their right to assemble and their freedom of speech.Accessing Facebook through private homes or Internet cafes, Egyptian youths have found an outlet for their angst and anxiety over Gaza through the online social networking site.