When I first registered with Facebook, I read that they sometimes remove our profiles but then I have a friend with multiple profiles that he uses to level up his game characters and even though I told him that he risks getting his account banned, he said that Facebook would have to proof that he has violated their terms of use.

As far as I know, Facebook strives to create an online social community of real people using real names and profiles. Those who use nicknames or business names are deleted.

Well, the thing is, as long as our profile and data are in a public domain, we risk getting them deleted without prior notice. Just take a look at Yahoo! Profiles and AOL Hometown. They don’t need to give us a reason and no, they did not.

The only way to safeguard our data is by hosting it ourselves and that also we need to backup our files regularly. Our hosts won’t take responsibility.

P1 Wimax will be ending their five month long promotion this 1st February, 2009 and will follow that will the roll out of five new packages, three for home users and two for businesses.

I figure that those who have already signed up with Wimax during their five month long promotional drive since August, 2008, will have to choose at least one package to upgrade to.

I have no idea how much the cheapest home package would be but the modem itself is said to retail at RM999 and that is a subsidized price. So if you are planning to try out Wimax, go get your free Wimax modem latest by 1st February, 2009.

I understand from friends who are in Kuala Lumpur that Wimax resellers are all over the place so I guess that one could never go wrong going to LowYat Plaza.

Right now, only a few major cities have coverage; Ipoh is not one of these cities, unfortunately. Even so, a friend reported to me that despite enjoying strong signal where he is in Kuala Lumpur, Wimax was not only not as fast as he expected, it was worse than his 4MB Streamyx connection.

According to a report by Google, despite busting a spam mail syndication in November, 2008, the volume of spam mail increased significantly by 25% compared to 2007. They also mentioned that an unprotected email account would receive approximately 45,000 spam messages.

These emails are not merely spamming us with a message to sell a product or service but most of them are one form of phishing mail, virus, malware and other forms of attack. And we are only talking about these coming in via email. We, web users, still have to deal with unwanted messages via instant messengers, Facebook, MySpace and other social networks, and let’s not forget, spam messages on our mobile devices!

Actually, we shouldn’t be surprised with the increase in spam. I read that the tougher the economy is, the more spam will hit our mailbox. Spam is like the social crime in our neighbourhood, just that spam is easier to deal with, by just clicking the delete button.

Just a week after starting their exercise to clean up pornographic filth on the web and in the process shutting down more than one thousand pornographic websites, forums and blogs, where China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) also arrested more than forty people involved in the dissemination of adult content (I figure these are probably webmasters and owners of pornographic sites), China’s next move is to clean up adult mobile content.

I see China as this big brother controlling content on the web and mobile phones but I guess this is all for putting a halt to morale decay amongst the youth of China. I personally think that this is a good move forward but I am not sure how long they are able to keep this up.

While there will always be new pornographic sites set up to feed the hunger of the masses, web users in China could also surf to foreign pornographic sites using proxy sites. I am not sure if China would be able to catch people doing so. I am just pointing out that closing Chinese pornographic sites is not enough.