Ok i decided to change title of my blog from “Free and  Open Source ” to  ”whats on your mind” yes the first one was good focussed one  on  one topic but i felt and  that what i do is more than just FOSS.  This gives me the freedom to write here instead of places like Facebook  or Twitter or Identi.ca . Ok whats on the plate to start with the new title “whats on your mind ” yes you got it right its been flicked from Facebook , thanks to there policy changes they were  in News for past few  weeks  , actually i really like it  so does so many of millions of  Facebook Fans .

i started digging and try to find out the social maps which exists and the  connections i can see , obviously FB was the tool of choice to begin with i hit upon my first search with Nexus which has shut down ;-( , but it gave me enough apps using which i can do pretty much what i wanted here are the list of applications on Facebook which mapped social connections not only they did that they were digging more into the connections.

Touch Graph
NamegenWeb
Friedn Wheel

i am sure there are more ways to dig in with the Graph API .

For all those people who are afraid after seeing the web of connections and having privacy concern there is no straighforward way to deactivate your Facebook account , deactivating actually does not help you in deleting all the data , to actually wipe all the info you need to go to this link Delete Facebook account

for all the other folks who do not want to delete the account here is a scanner to test your reclaimprivacy privacy setting on Facebook.

nice reads on this topic
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yahoo link
wired.com
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