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I belong to the wonderful world of Facebook. However, their sudden “facelift” has brought about much anxiety to a lot of users. Complaints have been posted left and right. I myself got a little confused about the whole new look. But as time went on i kind of got used to it, like pretty much everything else in my life.

I read a Facebook blog and it stated there a few reasons why they did it.

1) Making mobile more social. Although I have never used my mobile phone to check and update my status and those of others (and all because my mobile phone is a dinosaur), I guess people who do has greatly appreciated this improvement. New mobile apps are being built to accommodate mobile user’s growing needs.

2) Next evolution of Messages. The device or medium for receiving messages is no longer an issue. Their tool automatically shifts gear to whatever the receiver prefers based on hardware and applications availability.

3) Friendship pages launched. Now, searching for connections and network relationships are a breeze. True, this can be a drag for people who are keeping “secret” friendships. But otherwise, it is a fast and easy way to stay connected and informed about people related to you in the network. It even links to personal domain names of your friends.

Angsts about the new Facebook is coming to a slow halt, hopefully. Change is always faced with reactions, both good and bad. I say give it a chance. Privacy issues with the new Facebook interface are for those people who have a lot to hide. But that is just my opinion.

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The Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M) driver seems to be the one you’re looking for.  You desire to put that on a CD or floppy and when you start installing xp the blue screen with white text appears on the far end “Press F6 if you need to install a SCSI or RAID driver….” press F6 and put in your disk with the sata driver. I found plenty of sites with the driver download by just googling “Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)”.

People with notebooks usually don’t have a USB Floppy to install SATA drivers from, so you will also have to use nLite to merge them with install CD, or search in BIOS Setup for an entry like “SATA Native mode” and set it to disabled – that will allocate legacy software to detect your HDD as a normal PATA drive.

You have to install the SATA driver earlier than turning the native support off.

This is the second time that Facebook has made a booboo. Wasn’t it only last year that this particular social utility added a “news feeds” feature which only resulted to threatened protests from many of Facebook’s users. The company apologized, and I think it needs to do that again as there are reports of new complaints regarding a recently launched marketing program that apparently allows users and friends to see their online purchases. Facebook has been making steps to alleviate the situation but personally I think they need to hasten as a lot of users are getting pissed about how they put it as an invasion of their privacy.

Source: Yahoo! Internet News

Apart from blogging, social networking sites have gained popularity in today’s technological age. Users now have the ability to “connect” with their long lost friends and/or loved ones and, as an addition, some social networking sites give its users the option to choose the kind of relationship they have with another user (websites such as multiply.com have connection options such as “brother”, “classmate” etc.). Sounds neat, eh?

However, a new social networking website, Facebook.com, has received a lot of complaints from its members that they were unable to “completely” delete their personal information from the servers of Facebook. Yes, there is a delete option there if you wish to remove your account, but you need to write Facebook if you wish to “completely” delete your personal information from their servers.

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