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Facebook has silenced a 20,000-strong campaign group dedicated to the seemingly innocuous goal of stopping the site from forcing people to use the verb "to be" in their status updates.
The group, entitled "Campaign to lose the mandatory 'is' from facebook updates!", disappeared overnight on Wednesday without any warning to its creator, London-based Nick Shaw. He immediately wrote to Facebook administrators for an explanation, but has yet to get a response.
For Facebook refuseniks, the status update field allows users to let their friends on the network know what they're up to, so long as you can be it. For example, "Mark Zuckerberg is working out whether he'll be able to afford a Boeing 767 party jet".
Hundreds of campaigns – some important, most trivial – organise themselves with Facebook groups. One was credited with bringing about a major climbdown on student fees by banking giant HSBC last month.
The "lose the 'is'" group had attracted thousands of supporters in just over a month. Other much smaller groups argue the issues from both sides too. "Besides furthering the campaign we had a nice community of really rather funny and interesting people," Shaw said. "Now we have 20,000 people with no idea what's going on and no idea how to get back in contact with them. Social networking indeed."
The social networking website which was launched on February 4, 2004.
Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard University. It was originally based on what first-year students were given called the "face book" which was a way to get to know other students on campus. It was subsequently expanded to other Boston area schools (Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Tufts), Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, and all Ivy League schools within two months. Many individual universities were added in rapid succession over the next year. Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. Networks were then initiated for high schools and some large companies. Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to any email address user who inputs a certain age range. Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region.
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