The New Facebook Creeps Me Out

Earlier this week, on September 5th, the current most popular social-networking site added a new feature to their site. Facebook's new feature has been named "News Feed" and has an unusual demeanor to it. Users can now view any recent actions that their friends have performed. Although, even in a society that has been extremely open with their personal information, this new feature is not being very well accepted. Just a few short hours after the change in the site that receives up to 250 million hits a day, countless anti-News Feed groups were formed. I myself joined a group entitled "The New 'Stalker Version' of Facebook Creeps Me Out," and one group, "Students Against Facebook News Feed," already had more than half a million members by September 7th. But in the college world, I couldn't imagine not having Facebook. This is all stated in the story The Facebook Rebellion on CBSNews.com, but the main point of the story is the fact that students do have power in numbers. They are only hoping that sometime soon our generation will put our numbers into something important such as the war in Iraq or voting. But is our generation as involved with the government and society as we should be or do we need to rally our numbers to become more active? Is there a way that sites such as Facebook could help us to create involvement in society?