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Facebook's experiments in social-media advertising turned instead to "engagement ads," which have come under some scrutiny themselves, and the "fan pages" that it encourages brands, organizations, and celebrities to create.

The privacy controls on Connect are clearer and more extensive

critical it is to provide extensive user control over how information is shared

Trustworthiness Critics of publicly editable wiki systems argue that these systems could be easily tampered with, while proponents argue that the community of users can catch malicious content and correct it.[2] Lars Aronsson, a data systems specialist, summarizes the controversy as follows: “ Most people, when they first learn about the wiki concept, assume that a Web site that can be edited by anybody would soon be rendered useless by destructive input. It sounds like offering free spray cans next to a grey concrete wall. The only likely outcome would be ugly graffiti and simple tagging, and many artistic efforts would not be long lived. Still, it seems to work very well.[6]

Web 2.0 sites that enable people to create content are increasingly used to carry out a wide range of attacks

But this one's particularly notable because it happens as Twitter is still reeling from a denial-of-service attack last week that targeted a Georgian activist blogger but ended up knocking Twitter's servers offline for several hours. Other services, like Facebook and LiveJournal, were also affected by the attack.

Vandalism and Edit Wars