Facebook is one of the most popular online social networks now the fact that we are able to interact with friends, family, associates and even friends of all these people easily, plus all the interesting Facebook games, make the site one of the stickiest too. Even when at first I did not like the fact that I could make friends with friends of friends, I find myself spending more time on Facebook, only because of the games, or better known as applications.

At the same time, all these also make Facebook vulnerable to spam, malware attacks, phishing and other security threats. I know that there are many people who would expose their Facebook profile to strangers because they need more friends, more crew, a larger house or mob, to level up in the various games but this also puts us at risk to phishing attacks or identity thefts.

I came across an article this morning on a French website, SecuObs.com, thankfully the article is in English, which listed out ten Don’ts using Facebook. I think everyone who is registered with Facebook, whether an active user or not, should give this article a read and then take a fresh look at how we use Facebook and the information, contact details and photos we share on Facebook, and other similar social networks like MySpace, Friendster and even Twitter.

Many people have written in to me via my blogs to ask how to check the status of their Maxis IPO applications. Well, as mentioned in a previous post, you can check it online at http://www.mih.com.my with your old IC number or MyKad number. If you are using your MyKad number to check, do make sure that the format to use is xxxx-xx-xx with dashes.

Even though my application for Maxis IPO has been successful, I have not received any notification via mail. I have to say that there has been too much work, too little time for the people at Malaysian Issuing House, hence the delay.

A reader asked me for alternate ways to check the status of his Maxis IPO application since the website of MIH returned a negative result and he did not receive anything in the mail. If he had been unsuccessful, I gather he would have received his bounced application in the mail already, just like my aunt.

I told him that besides checking the status of his Maxis IPO online at http://www.mih.com.my and waiting for the postman to bring the news, he could also call up his remisier or dealer’s representative to ask or just call up the stock brokerage firm and provide them with his CDS account number.

Maxis will be listed on KLSE tomorrow at 9am so if you are planning to make a quick buck on opening day itself, you should find out the status of your Maxis IPO first thing tomorrow morning, if you haven’t go any news until now.

My friend told me that she’s doing fairly well investing in gold. She checks for the price of gold online first thing in the morning and she said that when she sees the price go up, she will be in a better mood the whole day!

Buying gold for investment is so easy nowadays, I feel like I have missed the boat. Did you check the price of gold today? It’s already more than US$1140 per ounce. I feel it’s wasted because I have been looking out for it when it was still US$800+ per ounce. It’s too bad that I failed to take action then, just a few short months ago.

Anyway, the price of gold is too high now that I am unable to go into the market anymore. However, I am eying silver now; though not as valuable as gold but there’s money to be made there since the price of silver still hasn’t sky-rocket yet.