Facebook Or Online ‘friend’ may be a federal agent

A new report unveils that the government has been briefly monitoring social networking sites, Facebook, MySpace , Orkut and Twitter.

It’s clever to watch what you say, and cleverer to watch what you say online, because you never know who might read it. In answer to a Freedom of Information request (FOIA), the government released documents unveiling that social networking sites are being deeply monitored. According to the report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Flickr were targeted, as well as Wikipedia, Craigslist, many political commentary sites, and NPR, among others.

One document reveals widespread information collecting around the time of the 2009 inauguration of President Obama: “Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuel a need to have a large group of ‘friends’ link to their pages, and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fake activities.”

While some use of social media to monitor fraud and security can be defensible, the EFF is worries that such extensive monitoring could turn a harmless, offhand status update into a blown out investigation.

“While there have been some reports in the past year of similar social network monitoring for large-scale public events,” said the EFF, “to date the public has not seen such detailed information about the government’s approach to monitoring, especially on its data protection practices. As our FOIA lawsuit continues, we hope to learn more about such activities and help bring further transparency and accountability to the ways in which government agencies and law implementation officials collect and analyze information about us online.”

Are you worried about the government stretching its authority and over-monitoring tweets and updates? Or is this a good thing, as it could potentially help deal with or prevent a disaster?

Skype 5 dials up Facebook integration

Skype 5 for Windows is out of beta, allowing Facebook users to post status updates, comments, and like items from directly within Skype. 

Leading VoIP service Skype has officially launched Skype 5 for Windows, which makes the real-time chatting application more social than ever by integrating with Facebook. Skype users will be able to act together with Facebook friends and communities right within the Skype application, posting status updates and comments, liking items, and  call & SMS their Facebook friends.

Skype 5 integrates a news feed of status messages from Facebook friends who are using Skype, and enables users to set their own Facebook status using a feature called “mood messages.” The services rely on users linking their Facebook account to their Skype account; at that point, any friend who has made their phone number available on Facebook can be called directly from Skype.

In addition to new social features, Skype 5 also aims to further expose some long-standing but not-as-widely-used features of the service via a Skype Home tab, including screen sharing, SMS, file sharing, and more. A new search feature automatically shifts friends to the top of results listings, and Skype says the new version of the applicationoffers improved call quality and is less likely to drop calls

Skype is also expanding its group video calling service, enabling support for up to 10 participants in a single video chat although the group video calling feature is still in beta, and Skype envisions eventually charging for it separately as an add-on service. Skype has claimed that more than one third of the calls it currently handles are now video calls and anticipates video calls will eventually become the norm.

The Skype client application remains free, and Skype-to-Skype calling remains free; however, users must pay to connect to mobile phones and traditional landline phones, albeit at rates that are usually substantially lower than traditional phone carriers. Skype says a version of Skype 5 for Mac OS X will be available soon.

Microsoft Bing associates with Facebook for modified search results

A new option for Bing users will permit the search engine to use the Facebook "like" data to distinguish search results. 

Microsoft brought Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters for a big announcement about the new integration of Bing and the social network. The goal of the partnership between the social media giant and the search engine underdog is to create a better search familiarity by using the Facebook “like” data of your friends to personalize your search results. This enlarges the Facebook world and gives Microsoft’s Bing a leg-up in its goal of taking bazaar share from Google. 

For example, if you are searching for a restaurant on Bing, the Facebook segment on the left side of the screen will highlight restaurants that your friends have “liked” through Facebook or one of the 2 million sites that use the “like” button. In addition to attempting to personalize your general searches, Bing and Facebook are also looking to improve people search. If a user searches for “Michael Buckley,” the Facebook module is smart enough to put the Facebook profile of the “Michael Buckley” that his or her friends know above the ones they don’t.

Zuckerberg was asked at the gathering whether Facebook would partner with other search engines in a similar way. The Facebook CEO left the option open but hinted that Microsoft was the first because of their willingness to innovate and take risks.

Bing users will see the effect of the Facebook partnership starting Wednesday.

Facebook added new options in privacy dashboard, downloadable data, group sharing

Facebook will provide users more new control over their data with an array of new features option including a latest privacy dashboard, the ability to download everything attached to their profiles, and latest groups.



Facebook held an invite_only press conference at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California on Wednesday. Since news of the event leaked, speculation and rumors about what the conference would reveal have been flooding the Internet. Many thought that Mark Zuckerberg would announce the integration of Skype and Facebook, or plans for a Facebook phone, but neither hit the mark. Instead, Zuckerberg introduced three new features that aim to further personalize Facebook and build the site’s functions around the way social networkswork in real life. It’s unclear when these new features will show up on the site, but we’ve got the inside scoop about what will change.



Download Your Information

The first announcement of the event was a feature that will let users download all of their Facebook data (photos, videos, messages, etc.) into a single zip file that will be sent through e-mail. How useful this feature will be is questionable, but it could help users who don’t keep track of all their own photos and videos on their own desktops.

New Dashboard

Right now on Facebook, there are two different screens to manage your applications, and setting privacy and permission settings for each one is confusing. A new dashboard on the left side of the screen will make application settings more accessible, and allow users to easily see what information each application is using.



Groups

The biggest announcement of the day was a new groups feature, designed to eliminate what Zuckerberg sees as the site’s biggest social problem: People don’t want to share everything with everyone on their friends list. In real life, people you want to communicate with are separated into natural groups: old friends, new friends, family, colleagues, etc. With the current Facebook, users can either choose to share a status update or photos with everyone they are connected with, or share with individuals via chat and messages.

With the new Groups feature, it will be much easier to share messages and photos with only a small group of friends. Groups will have privacy settings that allow content to be public, private, or completely secret. Zuckerberg also revealed that users will be able to use a group chat feature to communicate with fellow group members at the same time. This will help Facebook more closely mirror real-life social groups and interactions. With more and more people connecting with family and coworkers through Facebook, Groups seems like a good way to control who’s seeing what and not bug your 547 friends with your every communiqué. Check out the video below to see how the feature will work.

Facebook and Skype will Collaborate

Facebook and Skype will be announcing a partnership that will see Skype collaborate with Facebook.

This service would bring a whole new dimension to interacting with friends on Facebook, allowing for voice calls, SMS(short Message service) and  video calls too.

This could be a major win for Facebook, which has a limited chat function that, up to now, has been unable to compete with other chat services, such as GTalk, yahoo. Skype has over 500 million registered users with over 124 million using the service once a month. Add to that the 500 million users Facebook has and the cross flow of users could help both companies boost their bases and popularity.

The new features should go live on Skype 5.0 which is coming out of beta in a couple weeks.

Facebook, Relationships And “Catfish”: It’s Complicated

If ever a trailer did not depict what a movie is actually about it’s this trailer for Universal Pictures’ “Catfish”, a movie about Facebook the subject matter of which could not be further from that other movie about Facebook. I’d like to use this sentence to say “Spoiler Alert” about fifteen times because the next couple paragraphs are going to be full of them.



If you hate spoilers do yourself a favor and stop reading now. That said, the following exposition shouldn’t prevent you from seeing the movie, I’ve seen it twice and enjoyed both times.



“Catfish” is a movie about Nev Schulman, a 24-year-old New York photographer and his relationship with eight year old Abby Pierce and her 19-year-old sister Megan Faccio whom he meets on Facebook in 2007. I’m sure all of you can see this coming, but Megan isn’t who she claims to be and neither is Abby. Nev and Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost and the viewer get taken for a wild and well-documented ride, especially for the last 40 minutes of the movie.



In summary Megan and a bunch of other Facebook identities are characters invented by artistAngela Wesselman’s imagination, as Wesselman is trapped in Michigan taking care of two disabled children and has no outlets for creative expression other than her paintings — which she ships to Nev Schulman under the guise of them being her (real) daughter Abby’s — and her elaborate storytelling on Facebook. “Scam is not the word,” say the filmmakers regarding Wesselman’s bait and switch.

Plot twists aside, the film uses social networking and other tropes unique to the Internet age such as Google Maps, “sexting” and Photoshop in order to give a richer view of the emotional narrative, as Nev Schulman and Angela/Megan’s digital courtship drags on for eight months of phone calls, MP3 exchanges and even Facebook wall “infighting” among the various imaginary members of the Pierce family. At some point Schulman sends Megan an IRL post card, and remarks how odd the act of sending snail mail is.



What’s the most interesting about the film is that Wesselman is a totally new kind of artist, creating a entire world for Nev through multiple fabricated online identities. When asked during a screening last week why he, as a self-proclaimed part of the “Google Generation” never bothered to Google search Abby Pierce or Angela Wesselman or Megan Faccio, Nev Schulman said he did and came up with nothing, not pushing it any further because wanted to believe.“There are plenty of people with no Google presence,” says Schulman. Heh



This ambiguity surrounding “Catfish” (including its bloody Catfish logo) has lead it to be the subject of many attacks most notably from Movieline in their post “Does Sundance Sensation Catfish Have A Truth Problem?” which asserts that both the Schulmans and Joost knew that Megan wasn’t who she said she was right from the beginning. As counter to this, filmaker Ariel Schulman revealed that the movie is not being marketed as a documentary because the “D-word” turns off younger viewers to whom he thinks the film would be most beneficial as a cautionary tale.



While some scenes from the movie tend to reinforce the “they knew the entire time”hypothesis (as does Schulman’s shit-eating grin throughout) the “whether or not any of the boys suspected it” issue is complicated and best left to individual viewer discretion.



What should remain with you after seeing “Catfish” is how convincing the Facebook soap opera Wesselman pulled off could be to someone yearning for a human connection, and also as a side note, that model Aimee Gonzales’ boyfriend, whose images Wesselman used to pull off the ruse, chided her shortly after hearing about her inadvertent role in the film, “See I told you you shouldn’t have put all those pictures online.”



Catfish hits theatres September 17th, one month before the more glamorous “The Social Network.” Both Wesselman and Nev Schulman are still friends on Facebook.

Facebook Ends IE6 Support, and You Should Too

Facebook is ending support for Internet Explorer 6. Granted, it is only pulling the plug on IE6 in its chat function, but the move by Facebook is the latest effort to shift away from the outdated browser that refuses to die. Facebook's decision illustrates once again why organizations that still rely on IE6 should consider upgrading (finally).

A Facebook Blog post describes the issue behind the decision: "Many of you have told us that sometimes your Chat session comes and goes or even stops completely. We're working hard to end those interruptions so that your experience is stable and consistent."

The blog post goes on to explain, "The biggest improvements come from changes that aren't supported on older Web browsers. After evaluating the alternatives, we've decided to make rapid improvements and provide the best Chat experience possible, which means we will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 browsers."

I don't expect that compatibility with Facebook Chat will be a compelling reason for IT admins to follow suit and drop the venerable Web browser, but the underlying reasons behind the Facebook decision are worth exploration. The bottom line is that many of the Web technologies used today are simply not supported on a browser that was created almost a decade ago and is two--going on three--generations out of date.

Internet Explorer 8 has only been available about 18 months, and it has already emerged as the number one browser in the world in terms of market share. Not only is it the leading browser, but its rate of growth continues to outpace competing browsers as well. Sadly, Internet Explorer 6 remains as the number two browser, but thankfully it is in decline.

For many IT admins, the inability to use cool new bells and whistles on the Web is also not a very compelling argument for change. In fact, it might be a justification for keeping IE6.

The primary concern with IE6, though, isn't compatibility with Web 2.0--it's security on an increasingly insecure Web where attackers have determined that the browser is often the weakest link and the easiest point of entry into the network. Internet Explorer 6 was designed a decade ago, and it was designed to protect against decade-old security concerns.

IE6 is missing key security controls like DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and PMIE (Protected Mode IE) that make it more difficult for attackers to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities, and limit what an attacker can access or exploit even if they gain control of the IE process.

Microsoft is getting ready to launch the public beta of the next-generation browser--Internet Explorer 9--on the same day that Facebook will officially end support for IE6 in its chat function. It seems like the perfect time to re-examine the pros and cons of staying on IE6 and seriously consider upgrading to a more current browser.

Should parents 'friend' their kids?

To friend or not to friend is the big question facing many parents dealing with teenagers on Facebook.

Three quarters of parents questioned in a Nielsen survey said they are friends with their children on the popular social networking website which boasts 500 million active users. But a third admitted they are worried they are not seeing everything their children are doing on the web.

Perhaps with good reason, as nearly 30 percent of teens said if given the choice they would unfriend their parents.

"The No. 1 parenting issue, as least with my discussion with parents, is living on Facebook," said Regina Lewis, a consumer adviser with online services company AOL, which jointly developed the survey.

"It is part of the modern-day parenting reality."

The average number of friends on Facebook is 130 but for teenagers it can be much higher, according to Lewis.

"I thought the percentage of parents who were friends with their kids was strikingly high. It is more than 70 percent," she said, adding that children were twice as likely to want to unfriend their mother than their father.

For some children friending a parent is not always an option. In 41 percent of households there was a rule that children who use Facebook have to be friends with their parents.

"For some parents that became a non-starter," said Lewis.

The friending issue is a delicate balancing act between children thriving for more independence and their parents' desire to see what is going on to make sure their children are safe.

In nearly half of cases, children said they would prefer to be friends with their parents privately on the web without their parents having the ability to post comments.

Nielsen questioned 1,024 parents and 500 children aged 13 to 17 for the online poll. More than half of the youngsters admitted they do not personally know all of their Facebook friends, and 41 percent of parents said they knew half or less of their children's Facebook friends.

"Friending friends is certainly a way to populate your list quickly," said Lewis.

"That is why the number of mutual friends is one of those really important factors in figuring out who may be a outlier," she added, referring to someone who shouldn't be there.

Twenty percent of parents admitted they had told their children to unfriend someone.

Whether they are friends or not, Lewis said that to be responsible parents need to keep an eye on what their children are doing online.

Facebook overtakes Orkut in India: comScore

New Delhi: Internet giant Google's social networking platform Orkut has lost yet another turf to the surge of Facebook.

India, one of the few countries where Orkut retained the top spot amongst social networking websites, now has more people logging on to Facebook, says marketing research company comScore.

According to comScore, Facebook grabbed the number one ranking in the social networking category for the first time in July with 20.9 million visitors, up 179 per cent versus year ago. Orkut registered a growth of only 16 per cent in the same time period.

"The social networking phenomenon continues to gain steam worldwide, and India represents one of the fastest growing markets at the moment," says Will Hodgman, comScore executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region. "Though Facebook has tripled its audience in the past year to pace the growth for the category, several other social networking sites have posted their own sizeable gains."

In July 2010, more than 33 million Internet users aged 15 and above visited social networking sites in India, representing 84 per cent of the total Internet audience. While India's total Internet audience grew 13 per cent, social networking usage rose 43 per cent.

This makes India the world's seventh largest market for social networking. Only US, China, Germany, Russian Federation, Brazil and the UK rank above India.

Amongst the top social networking sites, Twitter had the most impressive growth with 239 per cent increase in the number of visitors since July 2009.

Facebook Projected to Overtake Google

If current projections hold, within 18 months, Facebook will overtake Google to become the most visited website in the world.

In just over six years, Facebook has gone from an upstart social network living in the shadow of MySpace, to the second most trafficked site on the Internet. Within the next 18 months, it might be the biggest website in the world.

According to the website Alexa.com, sometime in early 2012, the social networking website will surpass Google as the top site in the world. If the rate of growth for both companies remains constant, both Facebook and Google will be visited regularly by more than 50 percent of every person on the Internet on a daily basis.

Currently, Google is holding steady at around 150 million unique visitors per day, while Facebook is around 125 million: an increase in 25 million from this time last year. Google is also growing, but has plateaued a bit since hitting 150 million.

Facebook recently hit a milestone when it announced in July that it officially had 500 million active users registered on the site. While the number in general is remarkable for several obvious reasons, of equal note is the growth Facebook has seen, not just in unique visitors per day, but in the number of people that are even now signing up to create accounts. In the last seven months, Facebook has seen a 25-percent increase in the number of registered accounts, from 400 million to 500 million.

Facebook has also seen remarkable growth in its “Facebook pages,” which include both fan pages, as well as corporate pages run by businesses. According to the blog Eyes and Feet, the Facebook fan pages have increased from 4 million to 16 million as more and more business create professional Facebook pages to reach consumers.

Of course these projections don’t factor in things like over saturation, or any potential changes to either site that could raise or lower the traffic to each, but barring unforeseen events, Facebook will soon dominate the internet.

Facebook Places: The Cat-and-Mouse Game Continues

Every time Facebook introduces a new feature it initiates a game of cat-and-mouse with its users when privacy holes are opened up and the user is left to close them. It comes as no surprise, then, that Facebook's new location-sharing feature, Places, continues this cycle of potential data leaks.



Places is far better in terms of protecting user privacy than previous new feature roll outs such as the Instant Personalization service launched in April. Nevertheless, Places can still reveal important data about you if you don't take the time to adjust your privacy settings.

Configuration Dilemma

Instead of explicitly opting you in by default for Places, Facebook leaves most of your Places privacy settings unconfigured and you have to manually set them up. Choices include settings that let you share your check-ins with all Facebook users or just your Facebook friends. One setting allows your Facebook friends to initiate a check-in for you (for a primer on what it means to "check-in" see PC World's Geolocation 101).

The most crucial setting is the one that allows friends to check-in for you. If you leave this setting unconfigured you end up in a kind of privacy limbo, as TechCrunch describes it, where you have not opted in to Places but you're not opted out either.



Let's say a friend initiates a check-in for you at a bar called Louie's. You will then get a notification telling you your friend checked you in at Louie's. Since you are in privacy limbo, you will be given two choices: always allow others to do check-ins for you or ask you about this setting later. If you choose to be asked again, or if you do nothing at all, your presence at Louie's won't be registered in Facebook as a place you visited. However, your presence will be broadcast to others via a status update in real time. Since a friend could tag you in a regular status update and reveal your location that way--the thinking goes--why not allow the same functionality in Places?



The other problem is with third-party applications. Even if you lock down your location-sharing data so that only your friends can see it, your data could still be sent to a third-party application. Let's say your friend Linda uses Facebook to connect to Pandora. Once Linda authorizes Pandora, that application can access Linda's Facebook data and any of the publicly available data from people on Linda's friends list. If you're on Linda's friends list that means all kinds of data about you can be shared with Pandora if you haven't configured your privacy settings.



If you don't want third parties accessing your data, you need to find and adjust another setting. Step-by-step instructions are in the previous post entitled Facebook Places: How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings. The information about how third-party applications can access your data via your friends is under the sub-heading "Not Finished Yet."





Why, Facebook? Why?

So why does Facebook do this? Based on the company literature I've read, Facebook believes the more open your data is, the better your experience on Facebook will be. Your data is also enticing for third-party applications that connect with Facebook. True, Facebook's policies are supposed to prevent third-party apps from using your data for anything other than enhancing your Facebook experience. But who can guarantee that a rogue business isn't building a profile on you based on the data they collect from Facebook?



It's also much easier for Facebook to automatically turn on a new feature, thereby forcing it on users, than to try and convince you to activate the new feature yourself. And without new features that enhance your user experience, you might become bored with the service and look elsewhere for your online entertainment.



So the neverending cat-and-mouse game continues, with Facebook activating new features to entice you to use Facebook more often than you already do. Users who care about privacy scramble to turn off the new features as soon as they appear.

Facebook Partners with McAfee to Improve Security

Facebook and McAfee are giving users discounts on security software...and users who's accounts are compromised will have to pass a scan before getting back in to Facebook.

Social networking giant Facebook and online security firm McAfee have announced a new partnership that offers Facebook users a free six-month subscription to McAfee’s security software and discounts on continued subscriptions…but that will also see Facebook users required to pass a McAfee security scan to get back into Facebook in the event their accounts are compromised.

“Facebook is very serious about security and has made significant efforts to protect its users and service by investing in dedicated teams and sophisticated systems,” said McAfee executive VP Todd Gebhart, in a statement. “We believe our partnership will make a real difference in the battle to secure the Internet by giving so many more people access to industry leading technology from McAfee.”

The deal makes McAfee Facebook’s exclusive provider of security software for its members; Facebook says it isn’t taking any money out of the deal if users sign up for discounted McAfee subscriptions. The service will initially be available to Facebook users in the United States, UK, Australia, Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands. The program will extend to different countries in the first quarter of 2010.

Facebook users whose accounts are compromised will be required to use a free tool to scan and clean up infected computers, secure their account, and learn about good security practices. There won’t be any charge for use of that tool, although it’s not clear if Facebook and McAfee intend to offer the tool for platforms other then Microsoft Windows. Facebook and McAfee will also collaborate on content for Facebook’s security page.

The agreement is certainly a major marketing coupe for McAfee, which now has access to hundreds of millions of Facebook users, all of whom are now potential customers. However, the companies are also pitching the deal as a step forward in helping secure consumers’ Internet experience and cut down on identity theft, fraud, and other forms of online crime.

Facebook Officially Announces Geolocation Product

Facebook’s long-awaited and often discussed location-based software that allows users to check-in, has officially been debuted after months of rumors and speculation. Dubbed Facebook Places, the app will debut later today.

The new service will require the use of a smartphone with W3 geolocation, but users with the app can also tag friends to the same location. The app will also combine other software, such as Yelp, which will pull up information and even pictures of the location you are tagged at. Once you have checked in, the app will then tell you if any of your friends have checked in nearby.

Users will be able to flag certain locations to be ignored by Facebook, such as home, work, or anywhere else where you desire your privacy, plus users can also opt out of the service completely. In the coming weeks, we will see more integration with other apps, such as Gowala, Booyah, and Foursquare, although the Facebook app does seem to cross over into such similar territory that it is difficult to see how they can all coexist.

So let the hi-tech stalking begin!

Facebook buys Chai Labs

Social networking giant Facebook has bought content-focused start-up company Chai Labs. 

According to AllThingsDigital, which broke the news overnight, citing several sources, the price for the purchase is likely to be around $11.19 million, although it could not confirm the exact price. 

According to a regulatory filing Chai Labs, which was founded by former Google AdSense exec Gokul Rajaram, raised $1.1 million in funding last year and $1.3 million before that.

Chai Labs is describes itself on its website as a “technology platform enables publishers to easily customise and launch scalable, search-friendly sites in several verticals. We seamlessly complement our partners’ editorial teams, and some of our most compelling implementations have occurred when editors and journalists have worked side-by-side with our platform.”

And this is, coupled with the fact that the company also helps publishers create, source and deliver content was probably why Facbook was so eager to buy it. After all, it's no secret that Facebook has been trying to work with media companies rather than compete with them.

Facebook Users Scammed into Downloading ‘Dislike’ Button

Downloading the “dislike” button app on Facebook could allow spammers to access your profile.

For every yin there is a yang, but for every like, there is apparently not a dislike. Despite an ever increasing number of apps promising users a “dislike” button to counter the “like” button on Facebook, users that download a “dislike button” app are likely to be disappointed. As are their friends, when they begin to receive wall posts and messages filled with spam.

Hackers have begun to trick users into installing rogue applications on their Facebook profiles, by offering a coveted “dislike” button. Users that accept the downloadable application are also asked to complete an online survey, which earns cash for the scammers.  The surveys are legitimate, but will benefit the scammers.  Once the application is installed, it then begins to send out spam from the infected user’s account.

The remedy is simple: Do not install unknown apps.

“We always encourage people to not click on links that appear suspicious — even if posted from a friend,” a Facebook spokesperson told the BBC.

“They can report any posts to us. We can make sure that we take down any application or all of the links across Facebook.”

There are currently add-on features for the Firefox browser that will place a “dislike button” on the browser, but currently, Facebook has not discussed the possibility of releasing a similar feature.

“Anyone can write a Facebook app — these scams are constantly springing up,” he said.

Airtel offers free Facebook access to more than 130 million subscribers!

Airtel has reportedly announced that it will offer free access to mobile Facebook users (comprising more than 130 million subscribers) on its network for a period of 2 months up to August 31.

The mobile Facebook version is said to enable users to post status updates, comment and write on walls, message others, and also be able to view or upload photos (without incurring any data charges on this usage).

The existing mobile internet users on Airtel, could immediately avail this free service by connecting to their friends on the mobile Facebook site. However, the new subscribers who are accessing the mobile internet for the first time need to SMS 'FACEBOOK' to 54321 to make use of this offer.

Airtel promises to offer Facebook in six Indian languages - Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam, starting with Hindi and English. It definitely appeals to be a treat to all Facebook fans